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Neanderthal   Listen
proper noun
Neanderthal  n.  
1.
(Anthropol.) A neanderthal human being; a member of the race Homo sapiens neanderthalensis; as, neanderthals were shorter than modern humans.
2.
One resembling a neanderthal human; a troglodyte; a cave man.
3.
Hence: (Fig.) A person of primitive, unenlightened or uneducated opinions or attitudes; one with a regressive social or political outlook; used disparagingly.





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"Neanderthal" Quotes from Famous Books



... "noble savage," so dearly beloved by our grandfathers, and they have replaced him by the "splendid savage" of the French Valleys who 35,000 years ago made an end to the universal rule of the low-browed and low-living brutes of the Neanderthal and other Germanic neighbourhoods. They have shown us the elephants the Cro-Magnon painted and the statues he carved and they have surrounded him ...
— The Story of Mankind • Hendrik van Loon


Words linked to "Neanderthal" :   neandertal, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, boorish, human being, Neandertal man, genus Homo, unrefined


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