Asian vs cooly

Asian and cooly both are nouns.

Asian is an adjective but cooly is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Asian	Yes	Yes	No	No
cooly	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cooly is a hyponym of Asian; that is, cooly is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Asian:

Asian: a native or inhabitant of Asia
cooly: (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer

Other hyponyms of Asian include coolie, Evenki, Ewenki, Mongol, Mongolian, Indian, Eurasian, Afghan, Afghanistani, Altaic, Armenian, Bangladeshi, Bengali, Bhutanese, Bhutani, Burmese, Byzantine, Cambodian, Kampuchean, Chinese, East Indian, Malay, Malayan, Hindoo, Hindu, Hindustani, Hmong, Miao, Indonesian, Irani, Iranian, Persian, Iraki, Iraqi, Israelite, Israeli, Japanese, Nipponese, Jordanian, Korean, Kurd, Kuwaiti, Lao, Laotian, Lebanese, Malaysian, Maldivan, Maldivian, Nepalese, Nepali, Pakistani, Parthian, Singhalese, Sinhalese, Sherpa, Syrian, Taiwanese, Tadzhik, Tajik, Siamese, Tai, Thai, Tibetan, Turki, Kazakhstani, Annamese, Vietnamese, Singaporean, Sri Lankan, Dardan, Dardanian, Trojan, Iberian, Mongoloid, Timorese, oriental person.

Asian (noun)	cooly (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Asia	(ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer

Asian (adjective)	cooly (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture

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