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bigoted

bigoted

44 7.8
Showing strong, unfair dislike of people with different beliefs or backgrounds
  • adjective
  • /ˈbɪɡətɪd/
  • Offensive
translation icon : intolerante
  • As Ayodhya has shown, the right wing is bigoted, communal, and exclusionary.

That is just, it is fundamentally bigoted and it's unacceptable.

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Examples

  • You're seen as bigoted or judge mental or whatever.

  • That's a typically bigoted response to a culture you know nothing about.

  • That is just, it is fundamentally bigoted and it's unacceptable.

  • Most people who vote for a bigoted law think they're doing the right thing.

    Blog text (2)
  • You keep claiming that the GOP is "racist" and "bigoted" without any evidence at all.

    Blog text (2)
  • Express your disappointment that he continues to affiliate with a bigoted private group.

    Academic text (2000)
  • That's the most bigoted thing I've ever heard.

  • Enid has had enough run-ins with her bigoted neighbor without these kids causing trouble with noise.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Today's students are likely to be as bigoted as their counterparts outside the ivory towers.

    Academic text (1998)
  • That was a bigoted remark that showed a lack of respect for other cultures.

Synonyms

intolerant
vsbigoted
64 4.6

Not willing to accept people who have different opinions or beliefs

shows stronger unreasonable attachment and active hostility toward those views
discriminatory
vsbigoted
  • Offensive
34 6.0

Treating people unfairly because of their race, sex, age, or religion

focuses more on belief and intolerance rather than only actions against groups
opinionated
vsbigoted
30 5.5

Showing strong ideas and not willing to listen to others

adds active intolerance and hostility directed at people with differing views
narrow-minded
vsbigoted
25 5.1

Not willing to accept ideas or ways different from their own

is harsher, showing rigid belief plus active antagonism to others
prejudiced
vsbigoted
24 5.0

Having an unfair dislike for a person or group because of who they are

adds firm belief and active rejection of people holding other views
illiberal
vsbigoted
2 8.2

Not willing to accept other people's opinions or beliefs

is more extreme, adding committed belief and hostility toward dissenters

Antonyms

80 3.7

Ready to listen to new ideas and accept different views

72 3.2

Accepting of people and ideas that are different

How Intolerant

extremist
  • Literature
186 6.9
fanatical
30 6.8
bigoted
  • Offensive
44 7.8
intolerant
64 4.6
prejudiced
24 5.0
biased
91 4.0

Surface Forms

bigoted positive

Morphology

bigoted = bigot (transparent) = bigot + ed

Formed regularly from the noun 'bigot' with the adjectival suffix '-ed', giving a meaning directly predictable as 'showing bigotry'.

Etymology

Bigoted comes from the older word bigot, first used for someone with a narrow religious view; the exact origin is unknown and one popular story links it to a shouted phrase, but we cannot be sure. A helpful way to remember bigoted is to think of someone who is 'big on' one belief and closes their mind to others, so bigoted means unfairly intolerant of different views.