browner

Adjective

brown (comparative browner or more brown, superlative brownest or most brown)

1. Having a brown color/colour.
   • But none of those brown dwarfs were speeding along on a trajectory that would carry them out of the galaxy like “runaway” hypervelocity stars observed by astronomers in the last two decades.2024 August 21, Ashley Strickland, “An unusual object is moving so fast it could escape the Milky Way. Scientists aren’t certain what it is”, in CNN, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2024
2. (obsolete) Gloomy.
3. (US, capitalized, sometimes) Latino/Latin American
   • Reminds me of the time they asked me and a group of other Latino, predominantly Mexican, friends for our passports when we tried to go to their [expletive] party a little over a year ago.[…]
     The saddest part is that I don’t think they understand why it’s insulting to ask a brown person for a...2015 November 2 [2014], Susan Svrluga, quoting Ivonne Gonzalez, “Students accuse Yale SAE fraternity brother of saying ‘white girls only’ at party door”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC...
4. (US, broadly, capitalized, sometimes, vague) of color.
   • By Saad’s accounting – and this is not dissimilar from the white nationalist “great replacement theory” – western societies are bringing about their own destruction by admitting immigrants from poorer, browner and more Muslim countries.2025 April 8, Julia Carrie Wong, “Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2025
5. (capitalized, sometimes) South Asian or sometimes Middle Eastern or North African
   • I think they sort of realized like, oh, we have Aasif who is a Muslim, an American, brown person, you know, who can sit on that fence between cultures and sort of talk about what it is--what this is from the perspective of being an insider and an outsider at the same time.[…]
     I think there is in...2021 September 9, Aasif Mandvi, quotee, “Transcript: Race in America: Giving Voice with Aasif Mandvi”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2023
6. (capitalized, sometimes) Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or sometimes Native American
   • I came to deeply embrace anti-racism in slow, sustained increments.
     To do so, I had to embrace my own identity as a Brown person -- and understand my own complicity in white supremacy.[…]
     I had grown up in an entire Southeast Asian culture that had largely been groomed, indoctrinated and...2020 September 25, Eric J. Daza, “How A 'Secret Asian Man' Embraced Anti-Racism”, in LAist, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2021, Essays

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