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Adjective atavistic has 1 sense

• atavistic(s = adj.all) throwback - characteristic of an atavist; Array
Derived form noun atavist₁

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atavistic

aboriginal, ancestral, antepatriarchal, autochthonous, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, genetic, hereditary, humanoid, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, native, native to, natural, natural to, organic, patriarchal, physical, preadamite, preglacial, prehistoric, prehuman, primal, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, primoprimitive, primordial, pristine, protohistoric, protohuman, reactionary, recessive, recidivist, recidivous, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, retrorse, retroverse, returnable, reversible, reversional, reversionary, revertible, revulsionary, temperamental

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