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classist

classist

3 8.1
Showing unfair treatment or dislike of people because of their social class
  • adjective
  • /ˈklæsɪst/
translation icon : clasista
  • Insisting that only wealthy families deserve better education is a classist attitude.
  • classist, racist
  • classist and sexist
  • classist and patriarchal

We're not as classist a country as we were back then.

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Examples

  • The period's class-based cultural anxieties surrounding movie fandom are fully on display here; both novels use classist stereotypes of movie magazines and fandom in order to mark characters as untrustworthy.

    Academic text (2016)

  • I don't know him personally, but his latest moves have been paternalistic and classist.

    Blog text (26)

  • We're not as classist a country as we were back then.

    ReasonTV

  • So I think that it is a very classist kind of way to look at things.

    Film Courage

  • Can her works be said to express only classist attitudes?

    Academic text (2001)

  • I'll tell you for sure that these are first world problems, and your argument is classist and silly.

    Blog text (10)

  • In a recent interview, however, she also described numerous racist and classist encounters that occurred during her reign.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Some Torontonians I know who have always lived in the city have terribly classist ideas about small-town life.

    Blog text (29)

  • Nancy herself may have great freedom, but many critics have noted that her adventures remain heavily invested in classist, racist, and patriarchal social structures.

    Academic text (2016)

  • That's the essence of being classist and elitist, isn't it?

    Blog text (4)

Synonyms

elitist
vsclassist
49 7.0

Believing some people are better and should get special treatment

is prejudice that targets people because of their social class, not just superiority
snobby
vsclassist
  • Offensive
16 6.3

A person who thinks they are better than other people and looks down on them

is prejudice specifically because of someone's social class rather than general superiority
snobbish
vsclassist
  • Offensive
7 5.3

Acting like you are better than other people because of their money or clothes

is prejudice specifically because of someone's social class rather than mere exclusiveness

Antonyms

inclusive
88 4.1

Including all the things or people mentioned, even the limits

egalitarian
20 7.6

Believing that all people should have equal rights and chances

How Classist

classist
3 8.1
prejudiced
24 5.0
biased
91 4.0
open-minded
80 3.7

Surface Forms

classist positive

Morphology

classist = class (transparent) = class + ist

The adjective is formed by the productive agent/relational suffix '-ist' attached to 'class', giving the straightforward meaning 'relating to or showing prejudice based on social class'.

Etymology

Classist starts with class, meaning 'a social group', and ends with -ist, a part that makes words about people or beliefs. So, something classist shows unfair prejudice against people because of their class.