UNPREJUDICED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unprejudiced mean? 

• UNPREJUDICED (adjective)
  The adjective UNPREJUDICED has 1 sense:

1. free from undue bias or preconceived opinions

  Familiarity information: UNPREJUDICED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNPREJUDICED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Free from undue bias or preconceived opinions

Synonyms:

impartial; unprejudiced

Context example:

the impartial eye of a scientist

Similar:

color-blind; colour-blind; nonracist (unprejudiced about race)

Also:

open; receptive (ready or willing to receive favorably)

Antonym:

prejudiced (being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand)

 Context examples 

I claim to be an absolutely unprejudiced witness.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Suddenly, as I gazed on him, an idea seized me that this little creature was unprejudiced and had lived too short a time to have imbibed a horror of deformity.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Hear the truth, therefore, now, while you are unprejudiced.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

To ease her mind, and ascertain by the opinion of an unprejudiced person what her own conduct had really been, she took occasion to mention before Mr. Allen the half-settled scheme of her brother and the Thorpes for the following day.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

This critique, the justness of which was unfortunately lost on poor Catherine, brought them to the door of Mrs. Thorpe's lodgings, and the feelings of the discerning and unprejudiced reader of Camilla gave way to the feelings of the dutiful and affectionate son, as they met Mrs. Thorpe, who had descried them from above, in the passage.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)