neandertal

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neandertal - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Neandertal
      adj 1: relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal
             man; "Neanderthal skull" [syn: Neanderthal,
             Neanderthalian, Neandertal]
      2: 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" [syn:
         boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish,
         swinish]
      n 1: extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and
           western Asia [syn: Neandertal man, Neanderthal man,
           Neandertal, Neanderthal, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
           ]