racial

[ rey-shuh l ]

/ ˈreɪ ʃəl /

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

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Examples from the Web for racially

The 1988 presidential race is rightly remembered for its focus on demagogic and racially coded appeals.
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But will his racially charged rhetoric make him a liability instead?
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“It really is a struggle [to cast ethnically and racially accurate roles],” says the casting director.
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But the most racially motivated law of all, Bayor points out, was passed in 1924.
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Schools today are as racially segregated (PDF) as they were in the 1960s.
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The southern man far surpasses us in certain traits of which we have taken small account and in which we are racially deficient.
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These last were mostly men above middle age, and of a fanatical and racially bitter type.
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Racially and socially Belgium felt itself closely allied to France, economically its interests were much greater with Germany.
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The civilization of the West is fundamentally one not because the peoples of the West are one racially.
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But the Martian noble, racially much frailer than the people of Earth, was no match for the athletic Shelby.
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British Dictionary definitions for racially

racial

/ (ˈreɪʃəl) /

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

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Word Origin and History for racially

racial

adj.

1862, from race (n.2) + -ial. Related: Racially.

Medicine definitions for racially

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.

racial

adjective

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