racist

English

Etymology

1932 (noun), 1938 (adjective). Formed from racism (1928), paralleling French raciste (1892). Replaces older racialist (1910). For more, see race, -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪsɪst/

  • Audio (RP)

    (file)

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, 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.

• Albanian: racist (sq) m
• Arabic: عُنْصُرِيّ‎ m (ʿunṣuriyy), عُنْصُرِيَّة‎ f (ʿunṣuriyya)
• 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 (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
• 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 (gíze'ánít)
• Hindi: जातिवादी m (jātivādī)
• Hungarian: rasszista (hu)
• Icelandic: rasisti m, kynþáttahatari m, (man filled with racism) maður fullur kynþáttahroka m
• 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 or n, rasistă (ro) f
• Russian: раси́ст (ru) m (rasíst), раси́стка (ru) f (rasístka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ра̀сист m

  Roman: 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

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, nonstandard, by extension) Discriminatory.

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

Translations

relating to racism

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

  Mandarin: 種族歧視的 (zh), 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 (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 or f, razzistico m
• Malay: rasis
• Norman: raciste
• Persian: نژادپرستانه‎ (nežâd-parastâne)
• Polish: rasistowski (pl)
• Portuguese: racista (pt)
• Russian: раси́стский (ru) (rasístskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: расѝстичкӣ

  Roman: rasìstičkī (sh)

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

Related terms

• antiracism
• pseudoracism
• racism

See also

• bigot
• ethnocentrist
• xenophobe

References

• 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

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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

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Dutch

Etymology

ras +‎ -ist

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

racist m (plural racisten, diminutive racistje n)

1. racist