racist

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪ.sɪst/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæɪ.sɪst/
• Rhymes: -eɪsɪst

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, or who discriminates against other races.
   • 2007, Fran Harris, Will the REAL You Please Stand Up?:

     I don't blame racists, sexists, lookists, or any other “ists” for what they personify and perpetuate. They are mere hostages of their egos.

   • 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.

   • 2022 December 6, LeAnna T. Luney, “Like our foremothers survived: Self-education, direct confrontation, and humor as resistance coping in Black womxn and femme college student being”, in Frontiers in Education, volume 7, →DOI, page 10:

     Narrators demonstrated resistance coping techniques through direct confrontation with aggressors, such as racists, sexists, homophobes, elitists, and misogynoirists.

2. (humorous, Internet slang) A person who races (cars, etc.).

Hypernyms

• supremacist

Hyponyms

• Jim Crower, Jim Crowist
• white supremacist, whitist, black supremacist

Translations

person who believes a particular race is superior to others.

• Afrikaans: rassis
• Albanian: racist (sq) m
• Arabic: عُنْصُرِيّ m (ʕunṣuriyy), عُنْصُرِيَّة f (ʕunṣuriyya)

  South Levantine Arabic: عُنْصُرِي m (ʕúnṣori), عُنْصُرِيَة f (ʕúnṣoriyye)

• Armenian: ռասիստ (hy) (ṙasist)
• Azerbaijani: irqçi
• Belarusian: расі́ст m (rasíst), расі́стка f (rasístka)
• Bulgarian: раси́ст m (rasíst), раси́стка f (rasístka)
• Catalan: racista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 種族主義者 / 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
• Danish: racist c
• Dutch: racist (nl)
• Esperanto: rasisto
• Estonian: rassist
• Finnish: rasisti (fi)
• French: raciste (fr) m or f
• Georgian: რასისტი (rasisṭi)
• German: Rassist (de) m, Rassistin (de) f
• Greek: ρατσιστής (el) m (ratsistís)
• Hebrew: גיזען \ גִּזְעָן m (giz'án), גִּזְעָנִית f (giz'anít)
• Hindi: जातिवादी m (jātivādī)
• Hungarian: rasszista (hu)
• Icelandic: rasisti m, kynþáttahatari m, (man filled with racism) maður fullur kynþáttahroka m
• Indonesian: rasis
• Italian: razzista (it) m or f
• Japanese: 人種差別主義者 (じんしゅさべつしゅぎしゃ, jinshu sabetsu shugisha), レイシスト (ja) (reishisuto)
• Khmer: អ្នកប្រកាន់សាសន៍ (nĕək prɑkan sah)
• Korean: 인종차별주의자 (injongchabyeoljuuija)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: nijadperest (ku)

• Latvian: rasists m
• Lithuanian: rasistas m
• Macedonian: расист m (rasist), расистка f (rasistka)
• Malay: rasis
• Norman: raciste m or f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rasist m

• Pashto: نژادپرست m (nežãdparást), توکمپال (ps) (tukǝmpāl)
• Persian: نژادپرست (fa) (nežâd-parast), نژادگرا (fa) (nežâd-garâ)
• Polish: rasista (pl) m, rasistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: racista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: rasist (ro) m, rasistă (ro) f
• Russian: раси́ст (ru) m (rasíst), раси́стка (ru) f (rasístka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ра̀сист m

  Latin: ràsist (sh) m

• Slovak: rasista m
• Slovene: rasist (sl) m, rasistka f
• Spanish: racista (es) f
• Swedish: rasist (sv) c
• Tajik: нажодпараст (nažodparast)
• Thai: ผู้เหยียดผิว (pûu-yìiat-pǐu)
• Turkish: ırkçı (tr)
• Turkmen: jynsparaz (tk)
• Ukrainian: раси́ст m (rasýst), раси́стка f (rasýstka)
• Uyghur: ئىرقچى (irqchi)
• Uzbek: irqchi (uz), rasist
• Vietnamese: người phân biệt chủng tộc
• Zazaki: rasist, şarperest

Adjective

racist (comparative more racist, superlative most racist)

1. 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.

2. (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^[1] (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^[2] (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^[3] (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^[4], 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^[5], 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

• Afrikaans: rassisties
• Arabic: عُنْصُرِيّ (ʕunṣuriyy)
• Armenian: ռասիստական (hy) (ṙasistakan)
• Belarusian: расі́сцкі (rasíscki)
• Bulgarian: раси́стки (bg) (rasístki)
• Catalan: racista
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: rasistický (cs)
• Danish: racistisk
• Dutch: racistisch (nl)
• Esperanto: rasisma, rasista
• Finnish: rasistinen (fi)
• French: raciste (fr)
• Georgian: რასისტული (rasisṭuli)
• German: rassistisch (de)
• Greek: ρατσιστικός (el) (ratsistikós)
• Hebrew: גִּזְעָנִי m (giz'aní)
• 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 or f, razzistico m
• Japanese: 人種差別 (ja) (jinshu sabetsu)
• Malay: rasis
• Norman: raciste
• Persian: نژادپرستانه (nežâd-parastâne)
• Polish: rasistowski (pl)
• Portuguese: racista (pt)
• Romanian: rasist (ro)
• Russian: раси́стский (ru) (rasístskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: расѝстичкӣ

  Latin: rasìstičkī (sh)

• Spanish: racista (es)
• Swedish: rasistisk (sv)
• Thai: เหยียดผิว (yìiat-pǐu)
• Turkish: ırkçı (tr)
• Ukrainian: раси́стський (rasýstsʹkyj)

Derived terms

• 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

See also

• antiracism
• bigot
• ethnocentrist
• pseudoracism
• racism
• xenophobe

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “racist”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “racist”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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

Chinese

Etymology

From English racist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹei⁵⁵ sɪs²¹/, /wei⁵⁵ sɪs²¹/

Verb

racist

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, transitive, ditransitive, neologism) to discriminate based on race; to be racist against [from the 2010s]

   中四呢件事係……racist呢方面嘅嘢，跟住有鬧到我，而都有鬧到我屋企人，所以我就好唔中意呢樣嘢。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   中四呢件事系……racist呢方面嘅嘢，跟住有闹到我，而都有闹到我屋企人，所以我就好唔中意呢样嘢。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   zung¹ sei³ ni¹ gin⁶ si⁶ hai⁶...... racist ni¹ fong¹ min⁶ ge³ je⁵, gan¹ zyu⁶ jau⁵ naau⁶ dou³ ngo⁵, ji⁴ dou¹ jau⁵ naau⁶ dou³ ngo⁵ uk¹ kei^5-2 jan⁴, so² ji⁵ ngo⁵ zau⁶ hou² m⁴ zung¹ ji³ ni¹ joeng⁶ je⁵. [Jyutping]

   That thing in F4 was about them being racist, they scolded me, and they even scolded my family, and so I just really don't like this thing.

   • 2025, Mill MILK, “被欺凌有原因 從小家暴習慣怪責自己 在校被打覺得「可以接受」香港欺凌個案曾列72國家及地區之首”, in Pillow Talk‎^[6], spoken by Ann:

Danish

Noun

racist

1. 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

From ras +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

racist m (plural racisten, diminutive racistje n)

1. racist

Descendants

• → Indonesian: rasis