Ageest vs Ageist - What's the difference?
ageest | ageist |
Unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age.
A person who behaves in an ageist manner.
As adjectives the difference between ageest and ageist
is that ageest is afraid, astonished (used in Devonshire at the turn of the 19th century)ageist is unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age.As a noun ageist is
a person who behaves in an ageist manner.ageist
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Upon hearing that his employer would soon require yearly physical examinations and vision screening, my father exclaimed that the policy was ageist .
- Even though she had succeeded in the phone interview, when the ageist employer learned that the candidate was only 18 years old, she became hesitant.
Noun
(en noun)- He didn’t like to think of himself as an ageist , but he had to admit that he hadn’t considered the needs of some of the more elderly participants.