sadist

See also: Sadist

English

Etymology

From the name of the Marquis de Sade; see sadism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɪdɪst/, /ˈsædɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪdɪst, -ædɪst

Noun

sadist (plural sadists)

1. One who derives pleasure through cruelty or pain to others.

Derived terms

• sadistic

Related terms

• sadism
• sadomasochist

Translations

one who derives pleasure through cruelty or pain to others

• Czech: sadista (cs) m
• Danish: sadist (da) c
• Dutch: sadist (nl) m
• Esperanto: sadisto
• Finnish: sadisti (fi)
• French: sadique (fr) m or f, sadiste (fr) m or f
• Georgian: სადისტი (sadisṭi)
• German: Sadist (de) m, Sadistin (de) f
• Hindi: परपीड़क (parpīṛak)
• Hungarian: szadista (hu)
• Indonesian: sadis (id)
• Italian: sadico (it) m, sadista m or f
• Japanese: サディズム (ja) (sadizumu)
• Malay: sadis
• Polish: sadysta (pl) m
• Portuguese: sadista m or f, sádico m
• Romanian: sadic (ro) m
• Russian: сади́ст (ru) m (sadíst), сади́стка (ru) f (sadístka)
• Spanish: sádico (es) m
• Swedish: sadist (sv) c
• Tagalog: sadista
• Ukrainian: сади́ст m (sadýst), сади́стка f (sadýstka)
• Yiddish: סאַדיסט m (sadist)

See also

• masochist, mysoped

Anagrams

• Adsits, saidst, tsadis

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sadist/, [saˈd̥isd̥]

Noun

sadist c (singular definite sadisten, plural indefinite sadister)

1. sadist

Inflection

Declension of sadist

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sadist	sadisten	sadister	sadisterne
genitive	sadists	sadistens	sadisters	sadisternes

Antonyms

• masochist

Related terms

• sadisme
• sadistisk

Further reading

• sadist on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

From sadisme +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saːˈdɪst/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: sa‧dist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

sadist m (plural sadisten, diminutive sadistje n, feminine sadiste)

1. sadist

Related terms

• sadisme
• sadistisch

Descendants

• → Indonesian: sadis

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• sàdista (Bosnia, Serbia)

Etymology

From Sade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sǎdist/
• Hyphenation: sa‧dist

Noun

sàdist m (Cyrillic spelling са̀дист)

1. sadist

Declension

Declension of sadist

	singular	plural
nominative	sadist	sadisti
genitive	sadista	sadista
dative	sadistu	sadistima
accusative	sadista	sadiste
vocative	sadiste	sadisti
locative	sadistu	sadistima
instrumental	sadistom	sadistima

References

• “sadist”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Swedish

Noun

sadist c

1. a sadist

Declension

Declension of sadist

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	sadist	sadists
	definite	sadisten	sadistens
plural	indefinite	sadister	sadisters
	definite	sadisterna	sadisternas

Related terms

• sadism (“sadism”)
• sadistisk (“sadistic”)

See also

• masochist (“masochist”)
• sadomasochist (“sadomasochist”)

References

• sadist in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sadist in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Fula Ordboken