Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or being a human racial classification traditionally distinguished by physical characteristics such as brown to black skin and often tightly curled hair and including peoples indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa. No longer in scientific use.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An individual of a negroid race, such as those of Micronesia, the Negritos of the Philippine Islands, and the mixed tribes of northeastern Africa.
  • Resembling or akin to the negroes. Also negroöid.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Characteristic of the negro.
  • adjective Resembling the negro or negroes; of or pertaining to those who resemble the negro.
  • noun A member of any one of several East African tribes whose physical characters show an admixture with other races.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
  • adjective characteristic of people traditionally classified as the Negro race

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Negr(o) + –oid.]

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Examples

  • One Mongoloid female had been classified as Negroid.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • One Mongoloid female had been classified as Negroid.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • One Mongoloid female had been classified as Negroid.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • In 2004 on a Yahoo group I engaged in a discussion with Dr. Mustafa Ansari, who contends that the discovery in Brazil of an 11,500 year‑old skull of a woman with "Negroid" features proves that African Americans were here first, and so all non‑black Americans owe reparations to African Americans.

    Sound Politics: Sewer of Corruption (XVIII) 2006

  • He explained to the board, obviously unschooled in the nuance of racial slurs, that the word "Negroid" was offensive to many Negroes.

    Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 Morris J. MacGregor

  • Crucially, they decided that "Negroid" and "Arab" were two different "races," the former considered indigenous (native) and the latter foreign

    GlobalResearch.ca 2009

  • Southern Italians in particular, concluded Dorsey, were clearly of “Negroid” ancestry and therefore “of questionable value from a mental, moral, or physical standpoint.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • It is well understood that white men of that time considered the Negroid race inferior and childlike compared to whites.

    Jefferson on the Indians, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • There is such a thing as a Caucasian race, a Congoid (formerly know as Negroid) race, a Capoid race, a Mongoloid Race and Australoid race.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - BSG at the UN 2009

  • There is such a thing as a Caucasian race, a Congoid (formerly know as Negroid) race, a Capoid race, a Mongoloid Race and Australoid race.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - BSG at the UN 2009

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