atavistic

atavistic
Synonyms and related words:
aboriginal, ancestral, antepatriarchal, autochthonous, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, genetic, hereditary, humanoid, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, native, native to, natural, natural to, organic, patriarchal, physical, preadamite, preglacial, prehistoric, prehuman, primal, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, primoprimitive, primordial, pristine, protohistoric, protohuman, reactionary, recessive, recidivist, recidivous, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, retrorse, retroverse, returnable, reversible, reversional, reversionary, revertible, revulsionary, temperamental

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  • atavistic — adj. 1. 1 displaying characteristics of a previous cultural era or of a previous ancestral form; displaying atavism Syn: atavic, throwback(prenominal) [WordNet 1.5] || …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • atavistic — index genetic, regressive Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • atavistic — pertaining to atavism, 1847; see ATAVISM (Cf. atavism) + IC (Cf. ic) …   Etymology dictionary

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  • atavistic — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ returning to something ancient or ancestral. DERIVATIVES atavism noun atavistically adverb. ORIGIN from Latin atavus forefather …   English terms dictionary

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  • atavistic — [[t]æ̱təvɪ̱stɪk[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n Atavistic feelings or behaviour seem to be very primitive, like the feelings or behaviour of our earliest ancestors. [FORMAL] ...an atavistic fear of thunder and lightning. Syn: primordial …   English dictionary

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  • atavistic — adjective formal atavistic feelings are very basic human feelings, that people have felt since humans have existed …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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