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1. Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behaviour or appearance
   "was neandertal and insensitive"
   - boorish, loutish, neanderthal, oafish, swinish

1. Relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man
   "Neandertal skull"
   - Neanderthal, Neanderthalian

1. Extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia
   - Neandertal man, Neanderthal man, Neanderthal, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis

Derived forms: Neandertals

See also: unrefined

Type of: homo, human, human being, man

Part of: genus Homo

Encyclopedia: Neandertal Neandertal, Germany