negroid

C2 Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ˈniːɡrɔɪd/ UK /ˈniːɡrɔɪd/ See IPA manual

Freq #119226

Meanings

1

adj
dated and offensive: relating to a discredited racial category formerly applied to people of sub-Saharan African ancestry on the basis of supposed physical traits

The editor retained negroid only inside the historical quotation and added a note explaining that the classification is obsolete and offensive.
2

noun
dated and offensive: a person assigned to that discredited racial category

Modern anthropologists reject negroid as a noun because it treats socially constructed racial groups as fixed biological types.

Thesaurus

Word family

Related forms race racialismanthropometry

Etymology

Formed from Negro + -oid ("resembling; having the form of"). The term was used in now-discredited typological theories that divided humanity into supposed biological races. It is dated and offensive in current English except in careful discussion of historical language.

Topics

Describing Qualities Register & Style

External links

# negroid

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2
**Part of speech:** adj, noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈniːɡrɔɪd/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈniːɡrɔɪd/
**Frequency rank:** 119226

## Meanings
1. dated and offensive: relating to a discredited racial category formerly applied to people of sub-Saharan African ancestry on the basis of supposed physical traits
2. dated and offensive: a person assigned to that discredited racial category

## Examples
- The editor retained negroid only inside the historical quotation and added a note explaining that the classification is obsolete and offensive.
- Modern anthropologists reject negroid as a noun because it treats socially constructed racial groups as fixed biological types.

## Related Forms
- race
- racialism
- anthropometry

## Etymology
Formed from Negro + -oid ("resembling; having the form of"). The term was used in now-discredited typological theories that divided humanity into supposed biological races. It is dated and offensive in current English except in careful discussion of historical language.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Register & Style

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