Adjective throwback has 1 sense
- atavistic, throwback - characteristic of an atavist
Antonym: progressive (indirect, via regressive)
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Noun throwback has 2 senses
- atavist, throwback - an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism
--1 is a kind of organism, being
- atavism, reversion, throwback - a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
--2 is a kind of recurrence, return
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