Thesaurus:person of color

Thesaurus

person of color

English

Noun

Sense: non-white person

Synonyms

• BIPOC (PC)
• BME (Britain)
• colored    [⇒ thesaurus] (potentially offensive)
• colored person (potentially offensive, dated)
• minority (in white majority countries)
• nonwhite (uncommon)
• person of color (PC)

Hyponyms

• African-American
• Afro-American
• Asian    [⇒ thesaurus]
• black    [⇒ thesaurus]
• black man
• dark-skinned
• ebony
• Indian
• melanoderm
• Native American    [⇒ thesaurus]
• person of African descent

Offensive hyponyms

• blackamoor (dated)
• blackie
• brillo pad
• brownie
• burrhead
• camel jockey
• coon
• cotton picker
• darkey
• darkie
• darky
• dindu nuffin
• dune coon
• groid
• jigaboo
• jungle bunny
• kaffir
• monkey    [⇒ thesaurus]
• Negro (dated)
• negress
• negrette (rare)
• nigcel
• nigga (typically offensive)
• nigger
• niggerfaggot
• nig-nog
• niglet
• niglette
• pekkie (South Africa)
• pickaninny
• porch monkey
• Sambo
• sand nigger
• sheboon
• shitskin
• smoked Irish (dated)
• smoked Irishman (dated)
• spade
• spearchucker
• spook
• tar baby
• wetback
• wog (Britain)
• woolly-head
• zot

Hypernyms

• person    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• visible minority
• Category:English ethnic slurs
• Thesaurus:white person

Further reading

• “431. blackness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “black man” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.