negroid

See also: Negroid

English

negro +‎ -oid

negroid (comparative more negroid, superlative most negroid)

(anthropology, dated, offensive) Pertaining to a racial classification of humanity including people indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa and their diaspora in other parts of the world.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I, II, or III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
  They were human and yet not human. I should say that they were a little higher in the scale of evolution than Ahm, possibly occupying a place of evolution between that of the Neanderthal man and what is known as the Grimaldi race. Their features were distinctly negroid, though their skins were white. A considerable portion of both torso and limbs were covered with short hair, and their physical proportions were in many aspects apelike, though not so much so as were Ahm's. They carried themselves in a more erect position, although their arms were considerably longer than those of the Neanderthal man. As I watched them, I saw that they possessed a language, that they had knowledge of fire and that they carried besides the wooden club of Ahm, a thing which resembled a crude stone hatchet. Evidently they were very low in the scale of humanity, but they were a step upward from those I had previously seen in Caspak.

of the negroid race

negroid (plural negroids)

(anthropology, dated, offensive) A person with characteristics of Africans, particularly coiled hair and dark skin.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  "Round-headed," he muttered. "Brachycephalic, gray-eyed, black-haired, with suggestion of the negroid. Celtic, I presume?"

a person with negroid characteristics

Borrowed from French négroïde. By surface analysis, negru +‎ -oid.

negroid m (plural negroizi)

Declension of negroid

neger +‎ -oid

negroid (not comparable)

Inflection of negroid
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative²
Common singular	negroid	—	—
Neuter singular	negroit	—	—
Plural	negroida	—	—
Masculine plural³	negroide	—	—
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular¹	negroide	—	—
All	negroida	—	—
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

negroid c

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