Mongoloid

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mongoloid \Mon"go*loid\, n.
     A person affected with {Down syndrome}; -- not a technical
     term.
     [PJC] Mongols

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Mongoloid \Mon"go*loid\, 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]
  
     2. Of, related to, or affected with, {Down syndrome}; -- not
        a technical term.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mongoloid
       adj 1: characteristic of or resembling a Mongol; "the mongoloid
              epicanthic fold"
       2: of or pertaining to or characteristic of one of the
          traditional racial division of humankind including
          especially peoples of central and eastern Asia
       3: of or relating to or suffering from Down Syndrome; "a
          mongoloid child"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "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