racist

English

Etymology

French raciste. For more, see race, -ist.

Noun

racist (plural racists)

1. A person who believes in or supports racism; a person who believes that a particular race is superior to others.
   • 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.

Hyponyms

• Jim Crower, Jim Crowist
• white supremacist, whitist

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 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.

• Arabic: عِرْقِيّ‎‎ m (ʿirqiyy), عِرْقِيَّة‎‎ f (ʿirqiyya), عُنْصُرِيّ‎‎ m (ʿunṣuriyy), عُنْصُرِيَّة‎‎ f (ʿunṣuriyya)
• Catalan: racista m, f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 種族主義者 (zh), 种族主义者 (zh) (zhǒngzúzhǔyìzhě), 種族歧視者, 种族歧视者 (zhǒngzúqíshìzhě)

• Crimean Tatar: ırqçı
• Czech: rasista (cs) m
• Dutch: racist (nl)
• Esperanto: rasisto
• Finnish: rasisti (fi)
• French: raciste (fr) m, f
• Georgian: რასისტული (rasisṭuli)
• German: Rassist (de) m, Rassistin f
• Greek: ρατσιστής (el) m (ratsistís)
• Hebrew: גִּזְעָן‎‎ m (gíze'án), גִּזְעָנִית‎‎ f (gíze'ánít)

• Hindi: जातिवादी (jātivādī)
• Hungarian: rasszista (hu)
• Icelandic: rasisti m, kynþáttahatari m, (man filled with racism) maður fullur kynþáttahroka m
• Italian: razzista (it) m, f
• Japanese: 人種差別主義者 (じんしゅさべつしゅぎしゃ, jinshu sabetsu shugisha)
• Malay: rasis
• Norman: raciste m, f
• Polish: rasista (pl) m, rasistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: racista (pt) m, f
• Romanian: rasist (ro) m, n, rasistă (ro) f
• Russian: раси́ст (ru) m (rasíst), раси́стка (ru) f (rasístka)
• Spanish: racista (es) f
• Swedish: rasist (sv) c
• Turkish: ırkçı (tr)

Adjective

racist (comparative more racist, superlative most racist)

1. Constituting, exhibiting, advocating or pertaining to racism.
   • 2007 April 24, Luis Armand Garcia as Max Lopez, “George Can't Let Sleeping Mexicans Lie”, in George Lopez, season 6, episode 15:

     I'm pretty sure I'm flunking math because my teacher is racist against Latinos.

2. (colloquial) Discriminatory.

   They don't allow Muslims and gays to join the club? That's racist!

Translations

relating to racism

• Arabic: عِرْقِيّ‎‎ (ʿirqiyy), عُنْصُرِيّ‎‎ (ʿunṣuriyy)
• Catalan: racista
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 種族歧視的 (zh), 种族歧视的 (zh) (zhǒngzúqíshì de)

• Czech: rasistický (cs)
• Dutch: racistisch (nl)
• Esperanto: rasisma, rasista
• Finnish: rasistinen (fi)
• French: raciste (fr)
• German: rassistisch (de)
• Greek: ρατσιστικός (el) (ratsistikós)
• Hebrew: גִּזְעָנִי‎‎ m (gíze'ání)
• Hungarian: rasszista (hu)

• Icelandic: (based on racism) sem byggist á kynþáttafordómum, (showing racism) sem sýnir kynþáttahyggju, (showing racism) sem sýnir kynþáttafordóma, (showing racism) sem sýnir kynþáttahatur, rasista-, kynþáttahaturs-, kynþáttahroka-
• Indonesian: rasialis (id)
• Italian: razzista (it) m, f, razzistico m
• Malay: rasis
• Norman: raciste
• Persian: نژادپرست‎‎ (nežâdparast)
• Polish: rasistowski (pl) m
• Portuguese: racista (pt)
• Russian: раси́стский (ru) (rasístskij)
• Spanish: racista (es)
• Swedish: rasistisk (sv)
• Turkish: ırkçı (tr)

Related terms

• racism

See also

• bigot
• xenophobe
• ethnocentrist

Anagrams

• TRIACs, artics, crista, scairt, triacs, tsaric

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Dutch

Etymology

ras +‎ -ist

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

racist m (plural racisten, diminutive racistje n)

1. racist