Multiracial
adj, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An individual of more than one race.
"Hawaii, Obama’s childhood home, is the most diverse state in the Union: 21 percent of residents identified as “Hapa,” a Hawaiian word meaning “half” that has gone from being a slur against mixed-race Asians to a point of pride — and has increasingly been adopted by multiracials of all kinds on the Mainland."
- 1 Composed of, or having a mixture of, multiple races.
"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[…]"
- 1 made up of or involving or acting on behalf of various races wordnet
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"Japanese should not forget that America is a multiracial nation."
Etymology
From multi- + racial.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.