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Neandertal

Variant of Neanderthal

adjective

  1. designating, of, or from a valley in the Rhine Province, Germany
  2. designating or of a widespread form of early human being (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) of the Upper Pleistocene Epoch whose skeletal remains were first found in this valley
    1. crude or primitive
    2. reactionary; regressive

noun

  1. a Neanderthal human being
  2. a crude, primitive, reactionary, etc. person
Often, for adj. 2 & n. 1, Neandertal

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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