(dated, now sometimes offensive) An Asian.
asiatic
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for asiatic.
Editorial note
Maybe the ideal design for an american differs that the ideal design for an european or an asiatic person?
Quick take
(dated, now sometimes offensive) An Asian.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of asiatic gathered in one view.
(Egyptology) One of the people of ancient Canaan, Syria, or Mesopotamia; a Semite.
(dated) Asian, specifically, relating to the parts of Asia east of Egypt, i.e the Middle East or West Asia.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for asiatic.
noun
(dated, now sometimes offensive) An Asian.
noun
(Egyptology) One of the people of ancient Canaan, Syria, or Mesopotamia; a Semite.
adjective
(dated) Asian, specifically, relating to the parts of Asia east of Egypt, i.e the Middle East or West Asia.
adjective
(military, slang) Eccentric or crazy as a result of spending a long time in the Far East.
Example sentences
Maybe the ideal design for an american differs that the ideal design for an european or an asiatic person?
He became religious with some Asiatic religion before he came up with his theory on donations.
America started as a bunch of vaguely Asiatic foragers crossed over more or less in Alaska a couple thousand years ago.
It was fixed from 1994 to 1998 if I remember correctly, it became floating after the Asiatic crisis.
None of that is new or imported from the Asiatic Hordes.
It is asiatic+uninhibited+spontaneous and in a very non-American way too.
WWI, frequent editorializing of Germans being wild Asiatic savages while the Anglos were good and noble people that Americans owed something to for some reason nobody could explain.
Or you could take a look at the long history of anti-Asian racism in America (Chinese massacre of 1871, imported Asian slave labors for building the transcontinental railroads, Chinese Exclusion Act, Asiatic Barred Zone Act, etc).
Group D has people like the guy above that claimed to be part of F, also has countries that don't want to be dragged in all the A, B, C craziness, like some african countries, some asiatic countries, and so on.
Locating child-care, staying home with a kid who is sick and cannot attend day care, one income wages, and a host of other variables create issues for allocating the one-on-one time necessary to develop the ABC's, numbers, and mannerisms that a two-parent family is capable of; be they gay, straight, black, white, asiatic, hispanic.
Quote examples
A trans-Asiatic route would be highly unfeasible (or would make for another Indian Jones movie: "Delivery of the Misrouted Journal").
>> the extreme shame of failure and unwillingness to "lose face." Apologies in advance, for it pains me to generalise like this, but in my view, you have accurately summed up "asiatic culture" in that one line.
There's a certain "uninhibitedness" to the video that's very recognisably asiatic (as in there is no 'Made in USA' cultural feel and reference to it) and that also that shouts out "I am not a packaged deal, I was spontaneously made".
"America started as a bunch of vaguely Asiatic foragers crossed over more or less in Alaska a couple thousand years ago." It was more like 18,000 - 12,000 years ago, and perhaps earlier, well before civilizations, or even their agricultural precursors appeared anywhere on the planet.
Proper noun examples
I know they are both Afro-Asiatic languages, but on different ends of the spectrum (Arabic is a not Cushitic language).
They seem phonetically similar because both Somali and Arabic are Afro-Asiatic languages.
Maltese, interestingly, is the only Afro-Asiatic derived language.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use asiatic in a sentence?
Maybe the ideal design for an american differs that the ideal design for an european or an asiatic person?
What does asiatic mean?
(dated, now sometimes offensive) An Asian.
What part of speech is asiatic?
asiatic is commonly used as noun, adjective.