1. ageist - Noun
2. ageist - Adjective
ageist (comparative more ageist, superlative most ageist)
Unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age.
Upon hearing that his employer would soon require yearly physical examinations and vision screening, my father exclaimed that the policy was ageist.
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.
ageist (plural ageists)
A person who behaves in an ageist manner.
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.
Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men. Sharon Horgan
"Any rhetoric around sacrificing the 'old' for the sake of the economy is purely ageist, and it is dangerous," said Lennox. Source: Internet
"It left me shocked at how ageist and misogynistic they were. Source: Internet
Considering our completely sexist and ageist society where a woman over 40 is considered invisible, this theory isn’t much of a consolation prize. Source: Internet
I don't want anyone to think I'm being ageist here, though I actually think it's an ageist thing on the part of boomers to keep these (pardon the expression) fossils in office. Source: Internet
This is patronising, ageist and unhelpful. Source: Internet