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Adjective: neandertal
  1. Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behaviour or appearance
    "was neandertal and insensitive";
    - boorish, loutish, neanderthal, oafish, swinish
Adjective: Neandertal
  1. Relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man
    "Neandertal skull";
    - Neanderthal, Neanderthalian
Noun: Neandertal
  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, Germany