Negroid

American  

[nee-groid] / ˈni grɔɪd /

adjective

1. Anthropology. (no longer in technical use) of, relating to, or characteristic of the peoples traditionally classified as the Negro race, especially those who originate in sub-Saharan Africa.

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noun

1. Older Use: Usually Offensive. a member of such peoples.

Negroid British  

/ ˈniːɡrɔɪd /

adjective

1. denoting, relating to, or belonging to a darker-compexioned supposed racial group of mankind. This group includes the indigenous peoples of Africa south of the Sahara, their descendants elsewhere, and some Melanesian peoples

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noun

1. a member of this racial group

Usage

The word Negroid and other words ending in -oid relating to racial groups, such as Mongoloid , are controversial scientifically and best avoided. If you need to refer to ethnicity, it is preferable to use the specific name of the people or peoples concerned

Etymology

Origin of Negroid

First recorded in 1855–60; Negr(o) + -oid

Example Sentences

Race is her great subject, and it is bracingly unraveled as a stubborn fiction in drawings like the 1981 “Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2018

What’s new today is that modern genetic science has revealed just how arbitrary the old race categories — Negroid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid and so on — really are.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2017

Essentially, since peoples practicing Judaism appear in each of the three great stocks of mankind, Caucasoid, Negroid and Mongoloid, there is no Jewish race in the proper biological sense of the word.

From Time Magazine Archive

And yet, Locke pointed out, "some of the most characteristic American things are Negro or Negroid, derivatives of the folk life of this darker tenth of the population."

From Time Magazine Archive

We find therefore, in Africa to-day, every degree of development in Negroid stocks and every degree of intermingling of these developments, both among African peoples and between Africans, Europeans, and Asiatics.

From The Negro by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)