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say it: SEK-sist
sexist is a noun and adjective meaning "a man with a chauvinistic belief in the inferiority of women". It is pronounced /ˈsɛksɪst/ — SEK-sist. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a man with a chauvinistic belief in the inferiority of women
discriminatory on the basis of sex (usually said of men's attitude toward women)
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 sexist 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.