neanderthal

neanderthal
[[t]niæ̱ndə(r)tɑːl, -θɔːl[/t]]
neanderthals
1) ADJ: ADJ n Neanderthal people lived in Europe between 35,000 and 70,000 years ago.

Neanderthal man was able to kill woolly mammoths and bears.

...the late Neanderthal age.

N-COUNT: usu pl
You can refer to people from the Neanderthal period as Neanderthals.

The Neanderthals were very robust and quite different from us.

2) ADJ-GRADED: usu ADJ n (disapproval) If you describe people's, especially men's, ideas or ways of behaving as Neanderthal, you disapprove of them because they are very old-fashioned and uncivilized.

Let us deal with the question of his notoriously Neanderthal attitude to women.

Syn:
3) N-COUNT (disapproval) If you call a man a neanderthal, you disapprove of him because you think he behaves in a very uncivilized way.

In fact, many sympathized with me for having to put up with such a neanderthal of a boss.

...drunken neanderthals.


English dictionary. 2008.

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