mongoloid

• Mongoloid, Mongolioid (especially in the racial sense)
• gloid (syncopated)

From Mongol + -oid.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒŋɡəˌlɔɪd/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑŋɡəˌlɔɪd/
• Hyphenation: mon‧go‧loid

mongoloid (plural mongoloids)

1. (anthropology, dated) 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.

   Coordinate terms: Australoid, Caucasoid, negroid

   • 1983, Bertha Pauline Dutton, American Indians of the Southwest‎^[1], page 3:

     Both American Indians and Mongoloids have shovel-shaped incisor teeth and, at birth, display the Mongoloid spot — a blue spot above the rump, which fades within a short time; many also have the Mongoloid, or epicanthic, fold of the inner part of the upper eyelid.

   • 1991, Floyd James Davis, Who is Black?: One Nation's Definition‎^[2], page 19:

     On the average, he found caucasoids to have the longest heads and mongoloids the roundest; mongoloids the straightest hair and negroids the most tightly curled; caucasoids the narrowest noses and negroids the broadest.

   • 1997, Masatoshi Nei, Arun K. Roychoudhury, Genetic Relationship and Evolution of Human Races, page 38:

     As before, the genetic distance between Caucasoid and Mongoloid is the smallest and that between Negroid and Mongoloid is the largest.

2. (now offensive) A person with Down syndrome.
   • 1967, W. Wolfensberger, “13: Counseling Parents of the Retarded”, in Alfred A. Baumeister, editor, Ameliorating Mental Disability: Questioning Retardation, published 2009, page 376:

     Kirman (1953) drew attention to some physicians' reluctance to offer even ordinary and routine medical care to mongoloids, whose treatment they consider a waste of time.

   • 1977, Diana Crane, The Sanctity of Social Life: Physicians' Treatment of Critically Ill Patients‎^[3], page 97:

     It is therefore of interest to examine hospital records of mongoloid children with heart defects in order to find out how frequently operations are performed upon these children.

   • 1994, Meira Weiss, Conditional Love: Parents' Attitudes Toward Handicapped Children‎^[4], page 102:

     The operation made each feature, itself, look O.K., but her overall looks are still those of a Mongoloid. Her facial expression immediately reveals that she is different. She still has that peculiar look. You can see she has Down's syndrome.

3. (by extension, slang, derogatory, offensive) An idiot, a retard; a general term of abuse.
   • 2015 November 2, “[S01E01 - Pilot] Post-Episode Discussion Thread”, in Reddit: r/supergirlTV‎^[5] (reply), archived from the original on 26 January 2026:

     Easily one of the worst television pilots I've ever seen. Written by idiots, acted by mongoloids, and a plot so stupid even that dumb bitch who wrote the Twilight novels could have come up with something better.

   • 2018 June 23, Scary Face [username], “Why does this game run so poorly?”, in Steam Community‎^[6] (reply), archived from the original on 26 January 2026:

     ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, I'm only toxic to others if that's how they act to me, the mongoloid above was acting like a toxic ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ so i^[sic] replied in turn,^[sic] Pretty similar to how im^[sic] replying to you.

   • 2024 May 24, Finna22 [username], “What titles did you grab from the Vinegar Syndrome halfway sale?”, in Reddit: r/boutiquebluray‎^[7] (reply), archived from the original on 26 January 2026:

     EDIT: Added commas because I'm a formatting mongoloid

   • 2026 January 19, roachiemas [username], Threads‎^[8], archived from the original on 26 January 2026:

     Good luck with the absolute white trash mongoloid freaks who do the voting. Missouri's greatest export is drool from mouth breathing fucktards.

• Mongol
• Mongolian
• mongolism

mongoloid (comparative more mongoloid, superlative most mongoloid)

1. (anthropology, dated, offensive) Being a member or pertaining to characteristics of this racial classification.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɔŋɡoloˈʔiːt/

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mongoloid (strong nominative masculine singular mongoloider, not comparable)

1. (somewhat dated) affected by the Down syndrome; mongoloid

• The German adjective is not usually considered offensive, or at most very slightly so. Nevertheless, constructions with Downsyndrom are now more common.

• Mongo

• mongolid (“of the Mongoloid race”)

Borrowed from French mongoloïde.

mongoloid m or n (feminine singular mongoloidă, masculine plural mongoloizi, feminine/neuter plural mongoloide)

1. mongoloid

mongoloid m (plural mongoloizi)

1. mongoloid

mongoloid (not comparable)

1. (anthropology, dated, offensive) mongoloid
2. (dated, now offensive) mongoloid (having Down syndrome)
3. (slang, offensive) idiotic, retarded

The singular indefinite neuter is avoided according to the references, but mongoloit is what would intuitively be expected (and is attested).

mongoloid c

1. (anthropology, dated, offensive) a mongoloid
2. (dated, now offensive) a mongoloid (person with Down syndrome)
3. (slang, offensive) an idiot, a retard

• mongolism

• Downs syndrom

• “mongoloid”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “mongoloid”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “mongoloid”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)