elitist

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Believing that a small group of privileged people should have the most power or be treated as the best.

   Critics called the new policy elitist and unfair to ordinary people.

2. 2
   noun

   A person who believes a small privileged group should rule or be considered superior.

   He was dismissed as an elitist who looked down on working people.

From elite + -ist.

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