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Negritic

Negritic adjective: of or pertaining to negroes.

Adjective

Negritic (comparative more Negritic, superlative most Negritic)

  1. (archaic) Of or pertaining to negroes.
    • It may be — I do not say it is — too low for the Semitic race; it may be too high for the Negritic race.1882, Charles Francis Keary, Outlines of Primitive Belief Among the Indo-European Races

Forms of Negritic

comparativemore Negritic
superlativemost Negritic

Questions about Negritic

What does Negritic mean?
Negritic means of or pertaining to negroes.
What part of speech is Negritic?
Negritic is an adjective.

Words near Negritic in the dictionary

  1. Negrin
  2. Negrins
  3. Negripo
  4. Negris
  5. negrish
  6. Negritic
  7. Negritid
  8. negrito
  9. Negritoes
  10. negritos
  11. negritude

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