Native American vs Injun

Injun vs Native American

Native American and Injun both are nouns.

Native American is an adjective but Injun is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Native American	Yes	Yes	No	No
Injun	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Injun is a hyponym of Native American; that is, Injun is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Native American:

Native American: any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
Injun: (slang) offensive term for Native Americans

Other hyponyms of Native American include Algonquian, Algonquin, Anasazi, Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Maya, Mayan, Nahuatl, Olmec, Zapotec, Zapotecan, Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian, Chickasaw, Coeur d'Alene, Creek, Haida, Hoka, Hokan, Iroquois, Muskhogean, Muskogean, Penutian, Pueblo, red man, Redskin, Salish, Shoshone, Shoshoni, Tlingit, Wakashan, South American Indian, Carib, Carib Indian, Aleut, Aleutian, Arawak, Arawakan, Eskimo, Esquimau, Inuit, Paleo-American, Paleo-Amerind, Paleo-Indian, sannup, squaw, Red Indian.

Native American (noun)	Injun (noun)
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived	(slang) offensive term for Native Americans

Native American (adjective)	Injun (adjective)
of or pertaining to Native Americans or their culture or languages

Difference between Native American and Injun

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.