bigoted

adjective

big·​ot·​ed ˈbi-gə-təd 

: blindly devoted to some creed, opinion, or practice

… Mr. Harding himself was not a bigoted man on points of church doctrine …

—Anthony Trollope

especially : having or showing unreasonable dislike or hatred toward the members of a particular group (such as a racial or ethnic group)

bigoted comments/opinions

… early reports of Haitian and poor black voters turned away from polls by bigoted cops.

—Franklin Foer

… the December press conference at which the famously bigoted and anti-Semitic minister, fresh from a "near-death" bout with prostate cancer, proclaimed himself a changed man.

—Neal Pollack

bigotedly adverb

Whether you are religious, or bigotedly irreligious, or neither, you will find it disturbing in the best possible sense …

—A. N. Wilson

Synonyms of bigoted

• narrow
• parochial
• provincial
• intolerant
• prejudiced
• illiberal
• narrow-minded

Examples of bigoted in a Sentence

most viewers were disgusted by the comments of the talk show's bigoted guest

Recent Examples on the Web

Here was an extremely wealthy and culturally powerful woman who, for some reason, insisted on making her bigoted views about people like me openly and widely known. —Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025

Playing the liberal son-in-law of Carroll O’Connor’s grumpy and bigoted Archie Bunker earned Rob two Emmys. —Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 16 Dec. 2025

Despite the nickname, Meathead existed largely as a moral counterbalance to Archie, a bigoted, lovable loudmouth who battled with the younger generation over all the ways the times were a-changin’. —David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2025

In Congo, Tutsis face widespread discrimination and bigoted invective. —Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1660, in the meaning defined above