Adjective neanderthal has 2 senses
- boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish - ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
Antonym: refined (indirect, via unrefined)
- Neanderthal, Neanderthalian, Neandertal - relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man; "Neanderthal skull"
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Noun neanderthal has 1 sense
- Neandertal man, Neanderthal man, Neandertal, Neanderthal, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis - extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia
--1 is a kind of homo, man, human being, human
--1 is a member of genus Homo
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