bigotry
UK/ˈbɪɡ.ə.tɹi/
bigotry noun: the condition or the characteristic quality of a bigot, especially religious, anti-religious or racial intolerant prejudice; opinionatedness; fanaticism; fanatic intolerance.
Noun
bigotry (countable and uncountable, plural bigotries)
- The condition or the characteristic quality of a bigot, especially religious, anti-religious or racial intolerant prejudice; opinionatedness; fanaticism; fanatic intolerance.
- The remarkable resilience of the Ku Klux Klan is a sad reminder of the persistence of racial and religious bigotry in the United States. No terrorist organization can match the Klan's mystique or long history, and few can match its success.1979, Ted Robert Gurr, Violence in America: Protest, Rebellion, Reform, page 131
- For boys like Battuta, white women — never mind fat, Jewish, non-deferential white women — were for fucking and throwing over. What one hates in whites — love of brown sugar — one must also hate when it turns up, inverted, in black. Bigotry is not only a function of power.1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter V, in The Satanic Verses, page 272
- Obstinate prejudice or opinionatedness.
bigotry meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
bigotry in Hindi
- कट्टरता
bigotry in Tamil
- இன, விருப்புவெறுப்பு, சகிப்புத்தன்மையின்மை, சகியாமை
bigotry in Urdu
- عصبیت, تعصب
bigotry in Bengali
- ধর্মান্ধতা, গোঁড়ামি, অসহিষ্ণুতা
More languagesFewer languages
- bigotry in Malayalam
- അന്യാഭിപ്രായവിരോധം, അന്യാഭിപ്രായദേഷം, പരമതദേഷം, പരമതാസഹനം
- bigotry in Kannada
- ಧರ್ಮಾಂಧತೆ, ಮತಾಂಧತೆ, ಸ್ವಪ್ರತಿಷ್ಠೆ
- bigotry in Punjabi
- ਕੱਟਡ਼ਤਾ
- bigotry in Arabic
- تعصب
Examples of bigotry in a sentence
- Proud Boys have also taken great pains to phrase their bigotry politely.
- Expressing deep concern about violence tied to white supremacy and other forms of bigotry, Gov.
- A serious charge back then when bigotry was as natural to Southern Democrats as breathing.
Synonyms of bigotry
Forms of bigotry
| plural | bigotries |
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Origin of bigotry
From French bigoterie, from bigot. By surface analysis, bigot + -ry.
Words formed from bigotry
Questions about bigotry
- What does bigotry mean?
- Bigotry means the condition or the characteristic quality of a bigot, especially religious, anti-religious or racial intolerant prejudice; opinionatedness; fanaticism; fanatic intolerance.
- What is bigotry in Hindi?
- Bigotry in Hindi is कट्टरता. See Bigotry meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bigotry?
- Bigotry is a noun.
- How do you pronounce bigotry?
- Bigotry is pronounced /ˈbɪɡ.ə.tɹi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of bigotry?
- The plural of bigotry is bigotries.
Words near bigotry in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bigotry (page history and authors); bigotry (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bigotry (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bigotry (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bigotry (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bigotry (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); bigotry (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bigotry (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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