bigot
/ˈbɪɡət
/noun
A person who is intolerant towards those holding different opinions: don’t let a few small-minded bigots destroy the good image of the city he was a fanatical bigot...
- He's out to put religious bigots in the same moral and legal bracket as racists.
- Justice and decency were the very things the religious bigots of all denominations hated and feared most, as they still do today.
- One inflammatory bumper sticker alleges the religious right are bigots, among other things.
Synonyms
dogmatist, partisan, sectarian, prejudiced person;
racist, racialist, sexist, homophobe, chauvinist, jingoist, anti-Semite
informal male chauvinist pig, MCP
Origin
Late 16th century (denoting a superstitious religious hypocrite): from French, of unknown origin.
A bigot first denoted a superstitious religious hypocrite; the immediate source is French but further than that is not known.
Rhymes
- unpersuadedness
- unpersuasion
- unpersuasive
- unpersuasively
- unpertaining
- unpertinent
- unperturbed
- unperturbedly
- unperturbedness
- unperused
- unpervaded
- unperverse
- unpervert
- unperverted
- unpestered
- unpetitioned
- unpetrified
- unpetrify
- unpetticoated
- unphilanthropic
- unphilosopher
- unphilosophic
- unphilosophical
- unphilosophically
- unphilosophicalness