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Nigritic

Nigritic is the alternative form of Negritic.

Meaning of Negritic

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 Nigritic

comparativemore Nigritic
superlativemost Nigritic

Questions about Nigritic

What is Nigritic the alternative form of?
Nigritic is the alternative form of Negritic.

Words near Nigritic in the dictionary

  1. nigritas
  2. nigrite
  3. Nigritia
  4. Nigritian
  5. Nigritians
  6. Nigritic
  7. nigritude
  8. nigritudes
  9. nigritudinous
  10. nigro
  11. nigroe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Nigritic (page history and authors); Negritic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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