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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



... Pleistocene Epoch belongs to the men of the Neanderthal type. Some thirty specimens, a few of them more or less complete, have come down to us, and we can form a pretty clear notion of the physical appearance of the race. Speaking generally, we may say that it marks a stage ...
— Progress and History • Various


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


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