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Racist vs Racy - What's the difference?

racist | racy |

As adjectives the difference between racist and racy

is that racist is of, relating to, or advocating racism while racy is having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich.

As a noun racist

is a person who believes a particular race is superior to others.

racist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who believes a particular race is superior to others.
    • I think that racists and xenophobes hold our society back.

    Hyponyms

    *(l), (l) *(l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, relating to, or advocating racism.
  • * {{quote-video
    • , date = 2007-04-24 , episode = George Can't Let Sleeping Mexicans Lie , title = , people = Luis Armand Garcia , role = Max Lopez , season = 6 , number = 15 , passage = I'm pretty sure I'm flunking math because my teacher is racist against Latinos. }}

    Related terms

    * racism

    See also

    * bigot * xenophobe

    Anagrams

    * * English words suffixed with -ist ----

    racy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich.
  • Hence: Exciting to the mental taste by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.
  • Mildly risque, exciting.
    • She wore a racy dress that was just barely appropriate for the occasion.

    Anagrams

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