racist

English

Alternative forms

• waycist (eye dialect)

Etymology

From French raciste.

Noun

racist (plural racists)

1. A person who believes that a particular race is superior to others.

   I think that racists and xenophobes hold our society back.

Hyponyms

• Jim Crower, Jim Crowist
• white supremacist, whitist

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)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• archracist
• cryptoracist
• hyperracist
• postracist
• proracist
• pseudoracist
• quasiracist

• reverse racist
• semiracist
• socio-racist
• superracist
• ultraracist

Adjective

racist (comparative more racist, superlative most racist)

1. Of, relating to, or advocating 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)
• 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

---

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪst

Etymology

ras +‎ -ist

Noun

racist m (plural racisten, diminutive racistje n)

1. racist