sexist

See also: Sexist

English

Etymology

From sex +‎ -ist, after sexism.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛksɪst/

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

sexist (plural sexists)

1. A person who discriminates on grounds of sex; someone who practises sexism.

   Hyponyms: misandrist, misogynist

   • 1965 November 18, Pauline M. Leet, Women and the Undergraduate, Franklin and Marshall College, page 3:

     When you argue. .. that since fewer women write good poetry this justifies their total exclusion, you are taking a position analogous to that of the racist—I might call you in this case a "sexist"—who says that since so few Negroes have held positions of importance relative to the majority race, their exclusion from history books is a matter of good judgement rather than discrimination. Both the racist and the sexist are acting as if all that has happened had never happened, and both of them are making decisions and coming to conclusions about someone's value by referring to factors which are in both cases irrelevant.

     as quoted in:
     1985, Fred R. Shapiro, “Historical Notes on the Vocabulary of the Women’s Movement”, in American Speech, volume 60, number 1, page 6:

Translations

a person who discriminates on grounds of sex

• Catalan: sexista m or f
• Czech: sexista m
• Dutch: seksist (nl) m or f
• Finnish: seksisti (fi)
• French: sexiste (fr) m or f
• German: Sexist m, Sexistin f
• Irish: gnéasaíoch m
• Italian: sessista (it) m or f
• Norman: sexiste m or f (Jersey)
• Polish: seksista m, seksistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: sexista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: sexist m
• Russian: женофо́б (ru) m (ženofób), женоненави́стник (ru) m (ženonenavístnik) (men against women); секси́ст (ru) m (sɛksíst), секси́стка f (sɛksístka)
• Spanish: sexista m or f

Adjective

sexist (comparative more sexist, superlative most sexist)

1. Unfairly discriminatory against one sex in favour of the other.
   • 2006 Feb. 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 2:

     What was all that about?
     Well, like all women, she's shoe-mad.
     't's a bit sexist, isn't it?
     Do you know one woman who isn't obsessed with shoes?
     No, but I only know one woman. And she just left the room shouting "THE SHOES!"

   • 2013, Susan J. Hekman, Moral Voices, Moral Selves: Carol Gilligan and Feminist Moral Theory:

     A defender of communitarianism might argue that just because extant communitarian theories are sexist, it does not follow that communitarianism is inherently sexist.

Derived terms

• arch-sexist
• cryptosexist
• hypersexist
• postsexist
• prosexist
• quasisexist
• reverse sexist
• semi-sexist
• supersexist
• ultrasexist

 

Translations

unfairly against one sex in favour of the other

• Catalan: sexista
• Czech: sexistický
• Dutch: seksistisch (nl)
• Estonian: seksistlik (et)
• Finnish: seksistinen
• French: sexiste (fr) m or f
• Irish: gnéasaíoch
• Italian: sessista (it) m or f
• Japanese: 性差別的 (seisabetsuteki)
• Norman: sexiste
• Polish: seksistowski (pl)
• Romanian: sexist m, sexistă f
• Russian: женоненави́стнический (ru) (ženonenavístničeskij) (men against women); секси́стский (ru) m (sɛksístskij)
• Spanish: sexista
• Swedish: sexistisk (sv)
• Welsh: rhywiaethol (cy)

Related terms

• sex
• sexism

See also

• ableist
• bigot
• bigotry
• chauvinism
• chauvinist
• misandry
• misandric
• misogynist
• discrimination
• heterosexist
• homophobe
• homophobic
• -ist
• racist

Anagrams

• exists

Romanian

Etymology

From French sexiste.

Adjective

sexist m or n (feminine singular sexistă, masculine plural sexiști, feminine and neuter plural sexiste)

1. sexist

Declension

Declension of sexist

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	sexist		sexistă	sexiști	sexiste
	definite	sexistul		sexista	sexiștii	sexistele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	sexist		sexiste	sexiști	sexiste
	definite	sexistului		sexistei	sexiștilor	sexistelor