racist

Constituting, exhibiting, advocating, or pertaining to racism.

Adjective

  1. Constituting, exhibiting, advocating, or pertaining to racism.
    • I'm pretty sure I'm flunking math because my teacher is racist against Latinos. - 2007 April 24, “George Can't Let Sleeping Mexicans Lie”, in George Lopez, season 6, episode 15, spoken by Max Lopez (Luis Armand Garcia):
  2. Discriminatory.
    • They don't allow Muslims and gays to join the club? That's racist!
    • 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?) - 1996 November 14, Julie Wang, “TC...
    • Could it be the hate-filled content and the racist attitudes towards women and homosexuals? - 1998 April 22, Keri Lynn Sweeney, “Give it up, forger...this is very dull”, in alt.adoption (Usenet):

Origin

1932 (noun), 1938 (adjective). Formed from racism (1928), paralleling French raciste (1892). Replaced older racialist (1910). Equivalent to race + -ist.

Forms

more racist most racist

Synonyms

rayciss bigoted

Related

antiracism bigot ethnocentrist pseudoracism racism xenophobe

Derived

anti-racist antiracist archracist cryptoracist gaycist gracist hyperracist metaracist neoracist nonracist postracist proracist proto-racist pseudoracist quasiracist racistly reverse racist scientific racist semiracist socio-racist superracist ultraracist unracist xenoracist

Noun

  1. A person who believes in or supports racism; a person who believes that a particular race is superior to others, or who discriminates against other races.
    • I don't blame racists, sexists, lookists, or any other “ists” for what they personify and perpetuate. They are mere hostages of their egos. - 2007, Fran Harris, Will the REAL You Please Stand Up?:
    • 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. - 2009, Shirley R....
    • Narrators demonstrated resistance coping techniques through direct confrontation with aggressors, such as racists, sexists, homophobes, elitists, and misogynoirists. - 2022 December 6, LeAnna T. Luney, “Like our...
  2. A person who races (cars, etc.).

Forms

racists

Hypernyms

supremacist

Hyponyms

Jim Crower Jim Crowist white supremacist whitist black supremacist