Atavistic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  atavistic \atavistic\ adj.
     1. 1 displaying characteristics of a previous cultural era or
        of a previous ancestral form; displaying atavism
  
     Syn: atavic, throwback(prenominal)
          [WordNet 1.5] Ataxia



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  atavistic
       adj : characteristic of an atavist [syn: {throwback(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "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