racist
English
Etymology
1932 (noun), 1938 (adjective). Formed from racism (1928), paralleling French raciste (1892).Replaced older racialist (1910). Equivalent to race + -ist.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪs.ɪst/
Audio (RP) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪsɪst
Noun
racist (plural racists)
- A person who believes in or supports racism; a person who believes that a particular race is superior to others, and who discriminates against other races.
- 2009, Shirley R. Steinberg, Diversity and Multiculturalism: A Reader, page 104:
- Almost all the students I interviewed and worked with in group-facilitated discussions resisted being called a racist. This label was just too painful and for most students would not be accepted.
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Hypernyms
- supremacist
Hyponyms
- Jim Crower, Jim Crowist
- white supremacist, whitist, black supremacist
Derived terms
- antiracist
- archracist
- cryptoracist
- hyperracist
- postracist
- proracist
- pseudoracist
- quasiracist
- reverse racist
- semiracist
- socio-racist
- superracist
- ultraracist
Translations
person who believes a particular race is superior to others.
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Adjective
racist (comparative more racist, superlative most racist)
- Constituting, exhibiting, advocating, or pertaining to racism.
- 2007 April 24, “George Can't Let Sleeping Mexicans Lie”, in George Lopez, season 6, episode 15, spoken by Max Lopez (Luis Armand Garcia):
- I'm pretty sure I'm flunking math because my teacher is racist against Latinos.
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- (colloquial, proscribed, by extension) Discriminatory.
- They don't allow Muslims and gays to join the club? That's racist!
- 1996 November 14, Julie Wang, “TC Yang's talent”, in soc.culture.china, Usenet:
- Oh oh.. the term 'Neo-Nazi'.. just a few days ago, I heard a few girls sitting next to my table talking about this guy who was racist against females and call them 'femine-Nazi' (sp?)
- 1998 April 22, Keri Lynn Sweeney, “Give it up, forger...this is very dull”, in alt.adoption, Usenet:
- Could it be the hate-filled content and the racist attitudes towards women and homosexuals?
- 2000 August 12, Joe, “Who's Gary Tait anyways”, in alt.cable-tv, Usenet:
- so you are racist against gay ppl? I didnt know cable co's hired racist ppl!
- 2004, Perth Desperado, One Aussie's Endeavours, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 191:
- People are racist against the sick and injured
- 2011, Michelle Tea, Rose of No Man's Land, Anchor Canada, →ISBN:
- Amber went thoughtful. I wondered if she was racist against lesbian people.
- 2013, Travis Waker, The Perfect Game: A Daniel Willis Novel, Booktango, →ISBN:
- The guy said the remark sarcastically, as if he was racist against homosexuals.
Synonyms
- rayciss (pronunciation spelling)
- See Thesaurus:bigoted
Translations
relating to racism
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See also
- antiracism
- bigot
- ethnocentrist
- pseudoracism
- racism
- xenophobe
Further reading
- racist in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- racist at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- TRIACs, artics, crista, scairt, triacs, tsaric
Chinese
Etymology
From English racist.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹei⁵⁵ sɪs²¹/, /wei⁵⁵ sɪs²¹/
Verb
racist
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, transitive, ditransitive, neologism) to discriminate based on race; to be racist against [from the 2010s]
Danish
Noun
racist
- racist
Declension
Declension of racist
| common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | racist | racisten | racister | racisterne |
| genitive | racists | racistens | racisters | racisternes |
Further reading
- “racist” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
ras + -ist
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɪst
Noun
racist m (plural racisten, diminutive racistje n)
- racist