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nonelitist

nonelitist adjective: not elitist.

Adjective

nonelitist (not comparable)

  1. Not elitist.
    • To be sure, the average American can sign his name more or less legibly, and can make out the sports headlines—but how many nonelitist Americans can, without undue difficulty, read as many as a thousand consecutive words of small print, some of which may be trisyllabic?1980 January 20, Isaac Asimov, “A Cult of Ignorance”, in Newsweek, →ISSN, page 19

Noun

nonelitist (plural nonelitists)

  1. One who is not an elitist.

Forms of nonelitist

pluralnonelitists

Origin of nonelitist

From non- + elitist.

Questions about nonelitist

What does nonelitist mean?
Nonelitist means not elitist.
What part of speech is nonelitist?
Nonelitist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonelitist in the dictionary

  1. noneliminated
  2. nonelimination
  3. nonelite
  4. nonelites
  5. nonelitism
  6. nonelitist
  7. nonelitists
  8. nonellipsoidal
  9. nonelliptical
  10. nonelliptically
  11. nonelongate

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