segregationist

noun

seg·​re·​ga·​tion·​ist ˌse-gri-ˈgā-sh(ə-)nist 

plural segregationists

: a person who believes in or practices segregation especially of races (see race entry 1 sense 1a)

segregationist adjective

Examples of segregationist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The stodgy tradition, after all, allowed committee chairmen, usually southern Democratic (and segregationist) House members, to hold those coveted positions for decades. —David Mark, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Mar. 2025

In Louisiana, for example, Shriver withheld federal poverty funding from the state until Governor John McKeithen withdrew his plans to stack a new state-level economic opportunity office with segregationists, political cronies, and white supremacists. —Ryan Larochelle / Made By History, TIME, 12 Feb. 2025

The project aimed to integrate white, Black and Asian Americans amid segregationist policies, redlining and exclusion. —Shawna Chen, Axios, 20 Feb. 2025

Figures like George Wallace, a Christian and proud segregationist, and Bob Jones Sr., founder of Bob Jones University, preached sermons arguing that segregation was divinely ordained. —Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 8 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1913, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for segregationist

• conservationist
• educationist
• integrationist
• isolationist
• assimilationist
• creationist

Kids Definition

segregationist

noun

seg·​re·​ga·​tion·​ist ˌseg-ri-ˈgā-sh(ə-)nəst 

: a person who believes in, practices, or encourages segregation especially of races