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hyperracist

hyperracist adjective: extremely racist.

Adjective

hyperracist (not comparable)

  1. Extremely racist.
    • The way in which the book was able to expose the scope, brutality, and scale of the killings and abuse in the context of Maya culture and sociobiography and within the context of a colonial-style, hyperracist country, was a superb, brilliant way toward making sure it does not happen again, a way to...2001, Arturo Arias, The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy, page 288
    • As recently as 2006, the hyperracist civilizational gorefest film 300 features a “Black Persian,” a giant, grunting monster who wears a necklace of human skulls around his neck.2015, Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination

Noun

hyperracist (plural hyperracists)

  1. One who is extremely racist.
    • The rhetoric of anticommunism creates false extremes (philanthropy equals fanaticism), then conflates fanaticisms so that, in Faulkner's version, if Joanna can be linked with Joe, demagogue with dupe, so can she be linked with lynch mobs — and with Percy Grimm, the hyperracist and protofascist.2011, David Laibman, The Science & Society Reader, volume 1, page 167

Forms of hyperracist

pluralhyperracists

Origin of hyperracist

From hyper- + racist.

Questions about hyperracist

What does hyperracist mean?
Hyperracist means extremely racist.
What part of speech is hyperracist?
Hyperracist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near hyperracist in the dictionary

  1. hyperquark
  2. hyperquarks
  3. hyperracial
  4. hyperracialized
  5. hyperracism
  6. hyperracist
  7. hyperracists
  8. hyperradial
  9. hyperradical
  10. hyperradius
  11. hyperrational

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