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racial [rey-shuh l] ExamplesWord Origin See more synonyms for racial on Thesaurus.com adjective
- of or relating to the social construct of race: racial diversity; racial stereotypes.
- (no longer in technical use) of, relating to, or characteristic of one race or the races of humankind.
Origin of racial First recorded in 1860–65; race2 + -ial Related formsra·cial·ly, adverban·ti·ra·cial, adjectivenon·ra·cial, adjective Related Words for racial genetic, national, tribal, ancestral, folk, hereditary, genealogical, lineal, phyletic, phylogenetic Examples from the Web for racial Contemporary Examples of racial
It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time.
Thank Congress, Not LBJ for Great Society
Julian Zelizer, Scott Porch
January 4, 2015
The state was in a deep recession as Duke galvanized a racial backlash.
The Louisiana Racists Who Courted Steve Scalise
Jason Berry
January 3, 2015
This was later repurposed in Europe as an explanation for racial superiority, and the term “Aryan” came to define a white race.
Nina Strochlic
January 3, 2015
Every time a conservative pol gets caught in a racial mess, we hear the same weary and laughable tune.
Steve Scalise and the Right’s Ridiculous Racial Blame Game
Michael Tomasky
January 2, 2015
In fact, these kinds of advances helped give religion another huge window of opportunity for racial reconciliation in the 1960s.
James Poulos
January 1, 2015
Historical Examples of racial
The exception rather than the rule, there is no reason why he should not be the racial type.
Basil King
Yet in their racial and national relationships they are indubitably American.
Bliss Perry
All racial lines in literature are extremely difficult to draw.
Bliss Perry
She it is who has to play the chief part in the racial life.
C. Gasquoine Hartley
We have inherited marriage as a social, nay more, a racial institution.
C. Gasquoine Hartley
British Dictionary definitions for racial racial adjective
- denoting or relating to the division of the human species into races on grounds of physical characteristics
- characteristic of any such group
- relating to or arising from differences between the racesracial harmony
- of or relating to a subspecies
Derived Formsracially, adverb Word Origin and History for racial adj.
1862, from race (n.2) + -ial. Related: Racially.
racial in Medicine racial [rā′shəl] adj.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of race or races.
- Arising from or based on differences among human racial groups.
Related formsra′cial•ly adv.