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antiracist

adjective, noun

antiracist is an adjective meaning “Opposed to racism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-R-A-C-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does antiracist mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Opposed to racism.

noun

  1. 1

    One who opposes racism.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of antiracist

  • more antiracist comparative
  • most antiracist superlative
  • anti-racist
  • antiracists plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is antiracist?

Antiracist appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Antiracist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Germanantirassistisch (opposed to racism), Antirassist, Antirassistin (one who opposes racism)
Portugueseantirracista (opposed to racism)
Spanishantirracista (opposed to racism)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does antiracist come from?

From anti- + racist.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).