discriminatory
/dɪˈskrɪmɪnɪˌt(ə)ri
/ /dɪˌskrɪmɪˈneɪt(ə)ri/adjective
Making or showing an unfair or prejudicial distinction between different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex: discriminatory employment practices...
- It is unfair and discriminatory to charge disabled people more to travel.
- Enable children to think more critically about prejudice and discriminatory behaviour.
- The arguments put forward to lock them out of the scheme were always discriminatory and quite unfair.
Synonyms
prejudicial, biased, prejudiced, preferential, unfair, unjust, invidious, inequitable, weighted, one-sided, partisan;
sexist, heterosexist, homophobic, anti-gay, chauvinistic, chauvinist, racist, racialist, anti-Semitic, ageist, disablist, classist
Rhymes
- know-it-all
- knowledgable
- knowledge
- knowledgeability
- knowledgeable
- knowledgeableness
- knowledgeably
- knowledge assessment
- knowledge asset
- knowledge base
- knowledge-based
- knowledge box
- knowledge boy
- knowledge capital
- knowledged
- knowledge economy
- knowledge engineer
- knowledge engineering
- knowledge factory
- knowledgeful
- knowledge-full
- knowledge gap
- knowledge industry
- knowledgeless
- knowledge management