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looksist

looksist is the alternative form of lookist.

Meaning of lookist

Adjective

lookist (comparative more lookist, superlative most lookist)

  1. Forming prejudices based on a person's physical appearance.
    • Weldon was sent to profile Jordan and worried her subject was a simple reminder of Britain’s “shoddy, lookist, celebrity culture.”2008 March 16, Dwight Garner, “Inside the List”, in New York Times

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Forms of looksist

Adjective
comparativemore looksist
superlativemost looksist
Noun
plurallooksists

Origin of looksist

From looks + -ist.

Questions about looksist

What is looksist the alternative form of?
Looksist is the alternative form of lookist.

Words near looksist in the dictionary

  1. looksees
  2. looksful
  3. looksie
  4. looksies
  5. looksism
  6. looksist
  7. looksists
  8. looksmatch
  9. looksmatches
  10. looksmax
  11. looksmaxed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: looksist (page history and authors); lookist (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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