racial
/ˈɹeɪʃəl/
racial adjective: of or relating to a race (or a people).
Adjective
racial (comparative more racial, superlative most racial)
- Of or relating to a race (or a people).
- the racial complexion
- racial stereotypes
Noun
racial (plural racials)
racial meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
racial in Hindi
- racial
- नस्लीय naslīya
racial in Tamil
- இன வெறியான, இனப்பாகுபாடான
racial in Urdu
- نسلی
racial in Bengali
- জাতিগত, জাতীয়, গণীভূত
More languagesFewer languages
- racial in Malayalam
- വർഗ്ഗവിഷയകമായ, ഗോത്രപരമായ, വംശസംബന്ധിയായ, ജാതീയമായ
- racial in Kannada
- ಬುಡಕಟ್ಟಿನ, ತಳಿಯ, ವಂಶದ, ಕುಲದ
- racial in Arabic
- عِرْقِيّ ʕirqiyy, عُنْصُرِيّ ʕunṣuriyy
- racial in Persian
- نژادی nežâdi
Examples of racial in a sentence
- racial discrimination
- Barring out racial distinctions, they both live in an analogous environment.1712, The Art Melodious - Observations of a Musician, page 36:
- Such extremes have always been characteristic of the barbarous northmen, and we may not be wrong in referring to racial causes for the solution of this problem of contrarieties otherwise inexplicable.1854, W. Stevens, Printer (publishers), The Leisure Hour - An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading · Volume 3, page 678:
- In fact, by some measures, the racial liberalism of white Democrats and liberals has even surpassed that of their non-white counterparts.2022 May 2, Zachary Goldberg, “Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism: The Role of Collective Moral Emotions and Media Effects”, in...
Forms of racial
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more racial |
| superlative | most racial |
| Noun | |
| plural | racials |
Origin of racial
From race + -ial.
Words formed from racial
- alethoracial
- aletho-racial
- antiracial
- anti-racial
- anti-racialism
- antiracialism
- aracial
- biracial
- cisracial
- cis-racial
- cisracialism
- cis-racialism
- ethnoracial
- hyperracial
- inter-racial
- interracial
- intraracial
- monoracial
- multiracial
- multi-racial
- nonracial
- non-racial
- omniracial
- polyracial
- postracialised
- post-racialised
- postracialism
- post-racialism
- postraciality
- post-raciality
- postracialized
- post-racialized
- postracial
- post-racial
- preracialised
- pre-racialised
- preracialism
- pre-racialism
- preraciality
- pre-raciality
- preracialized
- pre-racialized
- preracial
- pre-racial
- proracialism
- pro-racialism
- proracial
- pro-racial
- proto-racial
- pseudoracial
- pseudo-racial
- quadriracial
- racial barrier
- racial grievance industry
- racial hygiene
- racial integration
- racialisation
- racialise
- racialised
- racialising
Phrases with racial
- racial memory
- racial purity
- racial spoils
- racial Marxism
- racial profile
- racial science
- racial barriers
- racial memories
- racial profiler
- racial profiles
- racial sciences
- racial profilers
3 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with racial
- glacial
- facial
- unifacial
- bifacial
- equifacial
- microfacial
- palatial
- parafacial
- spatial
- subglacial
- abbatial
- acousticofacial
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- acrofacial
- basifacial
- biracial
- brachyfacial
- buccofacial
- cardiofacial
- centrofacial
- cephalofacial
- cervicofacial
- cofacial
- craniofacial
- curatial
- cytofacial
- dentofacial
- distofacial
- dolichofacial
- enantiofacial
- endofacial
- englacial
- epifacial
- exofacial
- extrafacial
- gustofacial
- hemifacial
- interglacial
- intrafacial
- labiofacial
- linguofacial
- lithofacial
- mandibulofacial
- maxillofacial
- mesiofacial
- mesofacial
- midfacial
- minifacial
- multifacial
- multiracial
- musculofacial
- nasofacial
- nonfacial
- nonracial
- nonspatial
- oculofacial
- odontofacial
- orofacial
- oromaxillofacial
- orthofacial
- panfacial
Questions about racial
- What does racial mean?
- Racial means of or relating to a race (or a people).
- What is racial in Hindi?
- Racial in Hindi is नस्लीय (naslīya). See Racial meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use racial in a sentence?
- racial discrimination
- What part of speech is racial?
- Racial can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce racial?
- Racial is pronounced /ˈɹeɪʃəl/.
Words near racial in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: racial (page history and authors); नस्लीय (Hindi) (page history and authors); racial (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); racial (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); racial (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); racial (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); racial (Kannada 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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