English adjective: neanderthal | |||
1. | neanderthal ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | ||
Samples | Was boorish and insensitive. The loutish manners of a bully. Her stupid oafish husband. Aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude. | ||
Synonyms | boorish, loutish, neandertal, oafish, swinish | ||
Similar | unrefined | ||
Antonyms | refined | ||
2. | Neanderthal relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man | ||
Samples | Neanderthal skull. | ||
Synonyms | Neandertal, Neanderthalian | ||
English noun: Neanderthal | |||
1. | Neanderthal (animal) extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia | ||
Synonyms | Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, Neandertal, Neandertal man, Neanderthal man | ||
Broader (hypernym) | homo, human, human being, man | ||
Member meronym | genus Homo | ||