"racial" meaning in English

See racial in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈreɪʃəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-racial.wav [US], LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-racial.wav [UK] Forms: racial [positive], more racial [comparative], most racial [superlative]
Etymology: race + -ial Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|race|ial}} race + -ial Head templates: {{adj|more=true}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If something is racial, it is related to the skin color (race) of people
    Sense id: simple-racial-en-adj-ViHQv98X
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -ial
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