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Neanderthal   /niˈændərθˌɔl/   Listen
Neanderthal

adjective
1.
Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance.  Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, oafish, swinish.  "The loutish manners of a bully" , "Her stupid oafish husband" , "Aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
2.
Relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man.  Synonyms: Neandertal, Neanderthalian.






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"Neanderthal" Quotes from Famous Books



... confine myself, in discussing this question, to those fragmentary Human skulls from the caves of Engis in the valley of the Meuse, in Belgium, and of the Neanderthal near Dusseldorf, the geological relations of which have been examined with so much care by Sir Charles Lyell; upon whose high authority I shall take it for granted, that the Engis skull belonged to a contemporary of the Mammoth ('Elephas primigenius') and of the woolly Rhinoceros ('Rhinoceros tichorhinus'), ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley



Words linked to "Neanderthal" :   genus Homo, unrefined, human, man, homo, human being



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