NEANDERTHAL

boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish

(adjective) 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”

Neanderthal, Neanderthalian, Neandertal

(adjective) relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man; “Neanderthal skull”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

neanderthal (not comparable)

Alternative letter-case form of Neanderthal

Noun

neanderthal (plural neanderthals)

Alternative letter-case form of Neanderthal

Etymology

Adjective

Neanderthal (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to Homines neanderthalenses.

Old-fashioned, opposed to change (in allusion to Homo neanderthalensis).

Of or pertaining to the Neander Valley in Germany.

Noun

Neanderthal (plural Neanderthals)

A specimen of the now extinct species Homo neanderthalensis.

(pejorative) A primitive person.

Source: Wiktionary


Ne*an"der*thal`, a. (Anthropol.)

Definition: Of, pertaining to, or named from, the Neanderthal, a valley in the Rhine Province, in which were found parts of a skeleton of an early type of man. The skull is characterized by extreme dolichocephaly, flat, retreating forehead, with closed frontal sutures, and enormous superciliary ridges. The cranial capacity is estimated at about 1,220 cubic centimeters, being about midway between that of the Pithecanthropus and modern man. Hence, designating the Neanderthal race, or man, a species supposed to have been widespread in paleolithic Europe.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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