neandertal

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neandertal

A museum visitor examines a Neandertal skull in a display case.

Definition

  1. Adjective:

    • Ill-mannered, coarse, and contemptible in behavior or appearance: Describes someone or something that is uncivilized, rude, or brutish.
    • Relating to or resembling Neanderthal man: Pertaining to the extinct species of archaic human, Homo neanderthalensis.

  2. Noun:

    • An extinct robust human of the Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia: Refers to a member of the species Homo neanderthalensis.
Usage Examples

  • Adjective (behavior/appearance):

    • His neandertal attitude towards modern art was shocking.
    • The politician's neandertal comments offended many people.

  • Adjective (relating to the species):

    • Scientists discovered neandertal tools in the cave.
    • The museum has an exhibit on neandertal burial practices.

  • Noun:

    • The neandertal lived alongside early modern humans.
    • This fossil is classified as a neandertal.
Advanced Usage
  • Used as a pejorative term to criticize someone's perceived lack of sophistication or civility.
    • His views on gender equality are positively neandertal.
  • In scientific contexts, it is a neutral taxonomic term.
    • Genetic evidence shows some modern humans have neandertal DNA.
Variants and Related Words
  • Neanderthal: The more common modern spelling for both the adjective and noun.
  • Neandertal man: The specific term for the extinct human species.
  • Neanderthalic (adj.): Resembling or characteristic of a Neanderthal (less common).
Synonyms
  • Adjective (for behavior): Boorish, loutish, oafish, uncouth, crude.
  • Noun: , Neanderthal man.
Related Phrases/Idioms
  • While not a phrasal verb, the term is often used in the idiom "neanderthal thinking" to describe outdated, primitive, or regressive ideas.
    • The company's policies are stuck in a phase of neanderthal thinking.
neandertal

A museum visitor examines a Neandertal skull in a display case.

Adjective
  1. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
    • was boorish and insensitive
    • 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
    • Neanderthal skull
Noun
  1. extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia

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