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say it: RAY-shuhl
racial is an adjective meaning "of or related to genetically distinguished groups of people". It is pronounced /ˈɹeɪʃəl/ — RAY-shuhl. It carries 2 recorded senses.
of or related to genetically distinguished groups of people
“racial groups”
of or characteristic of race or races or arising from differences among groups
“racial differences”
“racial discrimination”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for racial come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.