racially

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adverb

Relating to race.

“a racially aggravated attack”

Less commonScrabble 13

Meanings

adverbracially (comparative more racially, superlative most racially)

comparative more racially · superlative most racially

  1. Relating to race.

    a racially aggravated attack

    2 more examples

    The ideal Mexican national is not racially equivalent to the Spaniard; Mexicans are racial hybrids, mestizos.

    1997, Alfred Arteaga, Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities, page 172

    Domestic extremists are motivated by a range of ideologies which “reflects an increasingly complex threat landscape, including racially or ethnically motivated threats and antigovernment or antiauthority threats,” the report says.

    2021 April 13, Katie Bo Williams and Zachary Cohen, “US intelligence community warns of devastating long-term impact of coronavirus pandemic”, in CNN

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁reh₁s-
  2. Proto-Germanic*rēsō
  3. Proto-West Germanic*rās
  4. Old Englishrǣs
  5. Proto-Germanic*rēsō
  6. Old Norserás
  7. Middle Englishrace
  8. Englishrace
  9. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  11. Englishracial
  12. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  13. Proto-Germanic*līką
  14. Englishracially

From racial + -ly.

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Translations

Czech rasově
  • rasověrelating to race
French à motivation raciste
  • à motivation racisterelating to race
German rassistisch motiviert
  • rassistisch motiviertrelating to race
Italian razzialmente
  • razzialmenterelating to race
Russian по ра́совому при́знаку, на ра́совой по́чве
  • по ра́совому при́знаку (po rásovomu príznaku)relating to race
  • на ра́совой по́чве (na rásovoj póčve)relating to race
  • на по́чве раси́зма (na póčve rasízma)relating to race
  • ра́сово (rásovo)relating to race
Spanish racialmente
  • racialmenterelating to race
Cite this entry
APA

racially. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/racially

MLA

“racially.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/racially. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “racially,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/racially.

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