Adjective: multiracial
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more multiracial |
| Superlative | most multiracial |
Sample Sentences
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Coined by Taiye Selasi (2005) and Achille Mbembe (2007), the term refers to an Afrocosmopolitan ethos of transcending national differences to forge multiracial communities. Fostered by recent histories of migration and globalization as[…] [2018 July 27, Gerard Delanty, Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies: 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN:]
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“When you say that multiculturalism is ‘not who America is’ and ‘distorts our glorious founding’ you unwittingly confirm the argument of the 1619 Project: That though we were … a multiracial nation from our founding, our founders set forth a government of white rule. Cool,” she wrote on Twitter, also pointing out that the Trump administration tried to censor The 1619 Project. [2021 January 19, Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood and Nicole Gaouette, “Pompeo attacks multiculturalism, saying it is ‘not who America is’”, in CNN:]
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After all, a lot of old standards would judge us all a nation of degenerates, with our phone-gambling and modern art and cereal commercials featuring multiracial families. [2026 July 9, Nitsuh Abebe, “Has There Ever Been a Better Time to Be a ‘Degenerate’?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
Adjectives inflected like multiracial
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?
4. Proto-Italic *moltos
5. Latin multus
6. Latin multīder.
7. Middle English multi-
8. English multi-
9. Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s-der.
10. Proto-Germanic *rēsōder.
11. Proto-West Germanic *rās
12. Old English rǣs
13. ▲
14. Proto-Germanic *rēsō
15. Old Norse rásbor.
16. Middle English race
17. English race
18. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
19. Proto-Indo-European *-is
20. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
21. Proto-Italic *-ālis
22. Latin -ālisder.
23. Old French -ialder.
24. Middle English -ial
25. English -ial
26. English racial
27. English multiracial
28. From multi- + racial.