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Neanderthal   /niˈændərθˌɔl/   Listen
Neanderthal

adjective
1.
Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance.  Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, oafish, swinish.  "The loutish manners of a bully" , "Her stupid oafish husband" , "Aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
2.
Relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man.  Synonyms: Neandertal, Neanderthalian.
noun
1.
Extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia.  Synonyms: Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, Neandertal, Neandertal man, Neanderthal man.



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"Neanderthal" Quotes from Famous Books



... Franks. Cologne was a railway centre that had completed its cathedral which bore an absent- minded air of a cathedral of Chicago. The thirteenth century, carefully strained-off, catalogued, and locked up, was visible to tourists as a kind of Neanderthal, cave-dwelling, curiosity. The Rhine was more modern than the Hudson, as might well be, since it produced far more coal; but all this counted for little beside the radical change in the lines ...
— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams

... the natural stooping posture which shovelling coal and the resultant over-development of back and shoulder muscles have given them. The men themselves should resemble those pictures in which the appearance of Neanderthal Man is guessed at. All are hairy-chested, with long arms of tremendous power, and low, receding brows above their small, fierce, resentful eyes. All the civilized white races are represented, but except ...
— The Hairy Ape • Eugene O'Neill

... ourselves of the cardinal distinction that exists between two forms that it may manifest. There is a progress which consists in and depends upon an advance in the constitution of the living individual; and, so far as we are more mental and less physical than the men who have left us such relics as the Neanderthal skull, in so far we exemplify this kind of progress. But, on the other hand, we can claim progress as compared with even the Greeks in some respects, though there is no evidence whatever that, so far as the individual is concerned, there is any natural, inherent, organic progress. But we know ...
— Woman and Womanhood - A Search for Principles • C. W. Saleeby

... witnessing from some safe hiding-place the stupendous strife that would have ensued—a battle more furious, lasting and fatal to many a brave knight of biology, than was ever yet fought over any bone or bony fragment or fabric ever picked up, including the celebrated cranium of the Neanderthal. ...
— The Naturalist in La Plata • W. H. Hudson



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