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mongoloid
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mongoloid has 2 senses
- mongoloid(n = noun.person) Array - a member of the Mongoloid race; Array is a kind of asian, asiatic
- mongoloid(n = noun.person) Array - a person suffering from Down syndrome (no longer used technically in this sense); Array is a kind of changeling, cretin, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, retard
Adjective mongoloid has 3 senses
- mongoloid(a = adj.pert) Array - characteristic of or resembling a Mongol; "the mongoloid epicanthic fold"
- mongoloid(a = adj.pert) Array - of or pertaining to or characteristic of one of the traditional racial division of humankind including especially peoples of central and eastern Asia; Array
- mongoloid(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to or suffering from Down syndrome; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
mongoloid, a. [Mongol + -oid.].
- Resembling a Mongol or the Mongols; having race characteristics, such as color, hair, and features, like those of the Mongols. Huxley. [1913 Webster]
- Of, related to, or affected with, Down syndrome; -- not a technical term. [PJC]
mongoloid, n.
A person affected with Down syndrome; -- not a technical term. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mongoloid, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 characteristic of the Mongolians, esp. in having a broad flat yellowish face.
2 (mongoloid) often offens. having the characteristic symptoms of Down's syndrome.
--n. a Mongoloid or mongoloid person.
--adj.
1 characteristic of the Mongolians, esp. in having a broad flat yellowish face.
2 (mongoloid) often offens. having the characteristic symptoms of Down's syndrome.
--n. a Mongoloid or mongoloid person.
THESAURUS
mongoloid
arrested, babbling, backward, blithering, burbling, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, dithering, driveling, drooling, half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, maundering, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, moronic, not all there, retarded, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, slobbering, subnormal
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