Negroid (Noun)
Meaning
A person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The anthropologist specialized in the study of Negroid physical characteristics in different regions of the world.
- Historians acknowledge the outdated classification of the Negroid type as a distinct racial category.
- Some old textbooks still contain terms like Negroid and Caucasian to distinguish physical features.
- In modern science, these racial terms, including Negroid, are no longer considered accurate or acceptable.
- The derogatory connotation and inaccuracy of terms like Negroid and Mongoloid have led to their disuse in contemporary discourse.