Ageist vs Ageinst - What's the difference?
ageist | ageinst |
Unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age.
A person who behaves in an ageist manner.
As an adjective ageist
is unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age.As a noun ageist
is a person who behaves in an ageist manner.As a preposition ageinst is
obsolete form of lang=en.ageist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.