atavistic

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective atavistic has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

atavistic, adj. 
     displaying characteristics of a previous cultural era or of a previous ancestral form; displaying atavism  [WordNet 1.5]

THESAURUS

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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