in English now usually 'decision formed without due examination of the facts or arguments necessary to a just and impartial decision.' " "Meaning 'preconceived opinion' (especially but not necessarily unfavorable) is from late 14c. In this reading "prejudice" is clearly negative, implying "prejudice towards" has the same meaning as "prejudice against". "prejudice (v.) mid-15c., prejudicen, "to injure or be detrimental to," from prejudice (n.) and from Old French prejudiciier." But the meaning of "prejudice towards" could be seen as ambiguous.
The meaning of "prejudice against" is clear. NGram suggests that against is used more than the other forms put together, though in favour used to be much more common than toward(s).ġ: Let's not get into the toward/towards debate here, though. The expression for prejudice in favour would be prejudice in favour of. Personally, I see prejudice against as to the detriment, and prejudice towards as neutral.
In my experience, some people have that assumption, and others don't. There's a school of thought that says that prejudice toward(s) 1 something is prejudice in that thing's favour, and prejudice against something is to that thing's detriment. As a word, though, it means to pre-judge, to judge in absence of evidence based on some characteristic. There's an argument that prejudice is an inherently negative concept, and philosophically it might be. Now, a quick exploration of that against/ towards thing. Actually, the against women bit is a complement in the other case as well. In that case, prejudiced is an adjective, and against women is a complement of that adjective, as it completes the meaning of prejudiced.
This is a much more sensible thing to say. That is highly unlikely to be anything you want to say. Being generous, we could assume you were describing him as the personification of such prejudice. Then you would be claiming that he, himself, is "prejudice against women", a concept or feeling or state of mind. Prejudice is a noun, and prejudiced is an adjective.
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