bigot
/ˈbɪɡət/
bigot noun: one who is narrow-mindedly devoted to their own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc.
Noun
bigot (plural bigots)
- One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to their own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc.
- A former senior minister from Boris Johnson’s government told the Guardian they believed Braverman was a “real racist bigot”.2023 April 13, Aletha Adu, Jessica Elgot, Kiran Stacey, “Senior Conservatives hit out at Suella Braverman’s ‘racist rhetoric’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- One who is overly pious in matters of religion, often hypocritically or else superstitiously so.
- He is no bigot or hypocrite, he is not torn and divided betwixt reality and appearance, no wretch of a rugged and peevish disposition, but honest, jovial, resolute, and a good fellow.1653, Urquhart, translating Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais, book 1
- Thus one part of their Church becomes Sotts and Bigots; and the other that behold this Scene of things, though they profess themselves of their Church, become a company of profane Atheists and clancular Deriders of all Religion. […] Nay it is a question whether those that do more superstitiously...1664, Henry More, A Modest Enquiry Into the Mystery of Iniquity, page 436
bigot meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
bigot in Hindi
- one who is narrow-mindedly devoted to his or her own ideas and groups
- कट्टर kaṭṭar, धर्मांध dharmāndh, कठमुल्ला kaṭhmullā
bigot in Tamil
- குருட்டு விடாப்பிடியர், குருட்டுப் பிடிவாதமுடையவர்
bigot in Urdu
- کٹر
bigot in Bengali
- one who is narrow-mindedly devoted to his or her own ideas and groups
- ধর্মান্ধ dhormandho
More languagesFewer languages
- bigot in Malayalam
- മതഭ്രാന്തൻ
- bigot in Kannada
- ಧರ್ಮಾಂಧ, ಮತಾಂಧ, ಸ್ವಮತಾಂಧ, ವಿವೇಚನರಹಿತ
- bigot in Tagalog
- panatiko
- bigot in Arabic
- مُتَعَصِّب mutaʕaṣṣib
- Dhivehi
- ބިގޯޓް bigōṭ
Examples of bigot in a sentence
- Tabletop Simulator's forums and community have essentially melted under the blazing bigot influx at this point.
- Change the game to fit me because you're an -istaphobe if you don't, bigot."
- Being called a bigot or any type of istaphobe doesn’t mean anything anymore.
Forms of bigot
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Origin of bigot
From French bigot (“a sanctimonious person; a religious hypocrite”), from Middle French bigot, from Old French bigot, of disputed origin. It is most often believed to have derived from the identical Old French derogatory term bigot applied to the overly religious Normans, said to be known for frequently swearing Middle English bi God (“by God”) (compare Old English bī god, Middle High German bī got, Middle Dutch bi gode), which is also thought to be the origin of the surname Bigott, Bygott. (Compare the French use of "godons" and "goddamns" to refer to the English in Joan of Arc's time, and les sommobiches (see son of a bitch) during World War I). From meaning "someone overly religious" it came to mean "someone overly devoted to their own religious opinion", and then to its current sense. The French Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales supports the Germanic origin theory above. Liberman however opines that this has "too strong a taste of a folk etymological guess invented in retrospect" and prefers Grammont et al.'s theory that it derives from Albigot (“inhabitant of Albi”), named after the commune in southern France where Catharism (also known as Albigensianism)...
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Questions about bigot
- What does bigot mean?
- Bigot means one who is narrow-mindedly devoted to their own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc.
- What is bigot in Hindi?
- Bigot in Hindi is कट्टर (kaṭṭar), धर्मांध (dharmāndh), कठमुल्ला (kaṭhmullā). See Bigot meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bigot?
- Bigot is a noun.
- How do you pronounce bigot?
- Bigot is pronounced /ˈbɪɡət/.
- What is the plural of bigot?
- The plural of bigot is bigots.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bigot (page history and authors); bigot (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bigot (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bigot (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bigot (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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