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casteist

casteist noun: one who discriminates against people based on their caste.

Noun

casteist (plural casteists)

  1. One who discriminates against people based on their caste.
    • If Indians endorse literature that endorses caste, all it means is that such admirers are also unabashed casteists or apologists for caste.2015, Kamala Narasimha, Life-Breath and the Truth: The Real and the Delusory

Adjective

casteist (comparative more casteist, superlative most casteist)

  1. Constituting, exhibiting, advocating, or pertaining to casteism.
    • The casteist slur of 'chamar' was hurled at a worker in a private housing colony and he was prevented from walking before certain residents because of the casteist fear of pollution.2021, Samarika Lulz, Michael Riegner, “Freedom of expression and hate speech”, in Arun K. Thiruvengadam, Philipp Dann, editors, Democratic Constitutionalism in India and the European Union, page 207
    • Shining Jewel of Truth made an impassioned speech to his crowd and cameras about collective responsibility, and how these consequences demonstrated that the actions of the state are neither racist nor casteist. See, he said, the high are punished as surely as the low.2023, Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors, Solaris (2024), pages 377-378

casteist meaning in Hindi and Tamil

casteist in Hindi

one who discriminates against people based on their caste
जातिवादी jātivādī

casteist in Tamil

சாதிவெறி, சாதிய வெறி

Forms of casteist

Noun
pluralcasteists
Adjective
comparativemore casteist
superlativemost casteist

Origin of casteist

From caste + -ist.

Questions about casteist

What does casteist mean?
Casteist means one who discriminates against people based on their caste.
What is casteist in Hindi?
Casteist in Hindi is जातिवादी (jātivādī). See Casteist meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is casteist?
Casteist can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of casteist?
The plural of casteist is casteists.

Words near casteist in the dictionary

  1. castedst
  2. Casteel
  3. Casteels
  4. casteism
  5. casteisms
  6. casteist
  7. casteists
  8. Castel
  9. Castel Gandolfo
  10. Castelbiague
  11. casteless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: casteist (page history and authors); casteist (Tamil 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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