Agenst vs Ageist - What's the difference?
agenst | ageist |
Unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age.
A person who behaves in an ageist manner.
As a preposition agenst
is .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.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.