ageist

Plural: ageists

Adj

• Unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age.

Noun

• A person who practices or promotes discrimination based on age.
• A person who behaves in an ageist manner.

Examples

• An ageist might dismiss a younger player’s strategy, but that often leads to underestimation.
• Even though she had succeeded in the phone interview, when the ageist employer learned that the candidate was only 18 years old, she became hesitant.
• He didn’t like to think of himself as an ageist, but he had to admit that he hadn’t considered the needs of some of the more elderly participants.
• Upon hearing that his employer would soon require yearly physical examinations and vision screening, my father exclaimed that the policy was ageist.

Related Words

-ist, ableist, age, ageism, bigot, bigotry, chauvinism, chauvinist, discrimination, heterosexist, homophobe, homophobic, racist, sizeist, veganist