racist

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪsɪst/

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.

2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A person who competes in races (e.g. an athlete).

Hyponyms

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

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 (ʕirqiyy), عِرْقِيَّة f (ʕirqiyya), عُنْصُرِيّ m (ʕunṣuriyy), عُنْصُرِيَّة f (ʕunṣuriyya)
• Catalan: racista m or f
• Chinese:

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

• Crimean Tatar: ırqçı
• Czech: rasista (cs) m
• Danish: racist c
• Dutch: racist (nl)
• Esperanto: rasisto
• Finnish: rasisti (fi)
• French: raciste (fr) m or f
• Georgian: რასისტული (rasisṭuli)
• German: Rassist (de) m, Rassistin (de) f
• Greek: ρατσιστής (el) m (ratsistís)
• Hebrew: גִּזְעָן m (gíze'án), גִּזְעָנִית f (gíze'ánít)
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• Hindi: जातिवादी (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)
• Malay: rasis
• Norman: raciste m or f
• 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)
• 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.
2. (colloquial, nonstandard) Discriminatory.

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

Translations

relating to racism

• Arabic: عِرْقِيّ (ʕirqiyy), عُنْصُرِيّ (ʕunṣuriyy)
• Catalan: racista
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 種族歧視的／种族歧视的 (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)
• German: rassistisch (de)
• Greek: ρατσιστικός (el) (ratsistikós)
• Hebrew: גִּזְעָנִי m (gíze'ání)
• Hungarian: rasszista (hu)
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• 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: نژادپرست (nežâdparast)
• Polish: rasistowski (pl) m
• Portuguese: racista (pt)
• Russian: раси́стский (ru) (rasístskij)
• Serbo-Croatian: rasistički (sh) m
• Spanish: racista (es)
• Swedish: rasistisk (sv)
• Turkish: ırkçı (tr)

Related terms

• racism

See also

• bigot
• xenophobe
• ethnocentrist

References

• “racist”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “racist”, in 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:

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• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

racist m (plural racisten, diminutive racistje n)

1. racist