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Synonyms and antonyms of Offensive words for people according to nationality or ethnicity in British Thesaurus

Offensive words for people according to nationality or ethnicity

black (noun)

offensive a black person. This word is sometimes considered offensive, so you should be very careful about using it.

colored ()

the American spelling of coloured

coloured (noun)

offensive a black person

coolie (noun)

offensive an insulting word used in the past for a worker with no special skills in China, India, and other parts of Asia

dago (noun)

offensive an extremely offensive word for a person from Italy, Spain, Portugal, or South America

Eskimo (noun)

old-fashioned a member of the Inuit people. This word is now sometimes considered offensive.

ethnic (noun)

mainly Americanoffensive someone who belongs to an ethnic group that lives somewhere where most people are from a different race or country. This word is often considered offensive in the UK, so you should be very careful about using it.

feringhee (noun)

Indian English someone from a foreign country, especially a white person. This word is sometimes used as an insult.

frog (noun)

offensive an insulting word for a French person

gook (noun)

Americanoffensive a very offensive word for someone from Asia

goy (noun)

offensive someone who is not Jewish

gringo (noun)

an insulting word used by some people from South America for someone from another country who speaks English, especially someone from the US

gypsy (noun)

offensive a Romany

half-breed (noun)

offensive an offensive word for a person who has parents of two different races, especially someone with one white parent and one Native American or black parent. A more polite expression is person of mixed race.

half-caste (noun)

offensive an offensive word for someone who has one white parent and one black parent. A more polite expression is person of mixed race.

honky (noun)

mainly Americanoffensive an insulting word for a white person

Indian (noun)

old-fashioned a Native American

Jerry (noun)

offensiveinformal an insulting word for a German

jock (noun)

Britishoffensive an insulting word for someone from Scotland

kaffir (noun)

South Africanoffensive a black person

kafir (noun)

offensive a word meaning ‘non-believer’, used by some Muslims to describe someone who is not a Muslim

Kraut (noun)

offensive an insulting word for a German

makwerekwere (noun)

South Africanoffensive a term used in South Africa for foreigners from the rest of Africa

mick (noun)

Britishoffensive an insulting word for an Irish person

mulatto (noun)

offensive an offensive word for someone who has one black parent and one white parent

native (noun)

offensive an offensive word for someone belonging to a group who lived in a place before Europeans arrived there

negress (noun)

offensive an offensive word for a black woman

negro (noun)

offensive a black person. This word is now considered offensive but until the second half of the 20th century it was an accepted word, used by black people as well as white.

nigger (noun)

offensive an extremely offensive word for a black person

non-white (adjective)

offensive used for describing people who are not considered to be members of the race of people who have pale skins. This word is usually considered offensive because it suggests that the white section of the population of the world is more important than any other.

oriental (noun)

old-fashioned someone from eastern Asia, especially China or Japan. This word is now considered offensive.

Paddy (noun)

offensive an insulting word for an Irish person

pakeha (noun)

New Zealand a white person in New Zealand, especially someone whose family originally came from Europe

Paki (noun)

Britishoffensive an extremely offensive word for an Asian person

pickaninny (noun)

offensive a black child. This word is sometimes used by older white people but most people consider it offensive.

pom (noun)

Australianinformal a pommy

pommy (noun)

Australianinformal a slightly insulting word for someone from the UK, especially someone from England

Pygmy (noun)

a member of a people who are of less than average height. Most Pygmies live in Central Africa or Southeast Asia. This word is now sometimes considered offensive.

Red Indian (noun)

old-fashioned a Native American. This word is now considered to be offensive.

redskin (noun)

offensive a word used in the past to refer to a Native American, now regarded as very offensive

savage (adjective)

old-fashioned an insulting way of describing someone or something from a culture that is not considered to be advanced. This is now considered offensive.

savage (noun)

old-fashioned an insulting word for someone from a culture that is not considered to be advanced. This is now considered offensive.

spade (noun)

offensive a very offensive word for a black person

squaw (noun)

offensive an old word for a Native American woman. This is now considered offensive.

Taffy (noun)

offensive an insulting word for someone from Wales

Uncle Tom (noun)

an insulting word for a black person who the speaker thinks shows too much respect for white people. This word is used especially by other black people.

WASP (noun)

mainly American White Anglo-Saxon Protestant: a word for people who are white and have money, power, and opportunities that other people do not have

wetback (noun)

Americanoffensive an offensive word for someone from Mexico who goes to live in the US

whitey (noun)

Americanoffensive an offensive word for a white person

wog (noun)

offensiveBritish an extremely offensive word for a black person

wog (noun)

offensiveAustralian an extremely offensive word for a person from a Mediterranean country

wop (noun)

offensive an extremely offensive word for an Italian person

Yank (noun)

impolite an insulting word for someone from the US

Yankee (noun)

someone from the US This word is often used as an insulting word for referring to an American by people who are not from the US

yid (noun)

offensive an extremely offensive word for a Jewish person