# 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: /ˈɹeɪ.sɪst/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈɹæɪ.sɪst/
* Rhymes: -eɪsɪst

### Noun

racist (plural racists)
* 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.

#### Hypernyms

* supremacist

#### Hyponyms

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

#### Derived terms

* antiracist
* archracist
* cryptoracist
* hyperracist
* neoracist
* nonracist
* postracist
* proracist
* proto-racist
* pseudoracist
* quasiracist
* reverse racist
* scientific racist
* semiracist
* socio-racist
* superracist
* ultraracist

#### Translations
### Adjective

racist (comparative more racist, superlative most racist)
* 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.
* (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 (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 (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 (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, 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, Booktango, →ISBN:The guy said the remark sarcastically, as if he was racist against homosexuals.

#### Synonyms

* rayciss (pronunciation spelling)
* See Thesaurus:bigoted

#### Translations
### 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: /ɹei⁵⁵ sɪs²¹/, /wei⁵⁵ sɪs²¹/

### Verb

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

## Danish
### Noun

racist
* racist

#### Declension
### 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)
* racist

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: rasis