mongoloid

Meanings

Plural: mongoloids

Noun

• a member of the Mongoloid race
• a person suffering from Down syndrome (no longer used technically in this sense)
• A member of the racial classification of humanity composed of peoples native to North Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Pacific Oceania, the Americas, and parts of Central Asia and South Asia (and sometimes eastern Fennoscandia) – as well as their descendants in other parts of the world.
• A person with Down syndrome.
• An idiot, a retard; a general term of abuse, due to association with Down syndrome.

Adjective

• characteristic of or resembling a Mongol
  • "the mongoloid epicanthic fold"
• of or pertaining to or characteristic of one of the traditional racial division of humankind including especially peoples of central and eastern Asia
• of or relating to or suffering from Down syndrome

Adj

• Being a member or pertaining to characteristics of this racial classification.

Related Words

Australoid, Caucasoid, Mongol, Mongolian, mongolism, negroid