neanderthal

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsboorishloutishneandertaloafishswinish

   Similarunrefined
2. 2.

   relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man

   “Neanderthal skull”

   SynonymsNeanderthalianNeandertal

1. 1.

   extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia

   SynonymsNeandertal manNeanderthal manNeandertalHomo sapiens neanderthalensis

   Broaderhomo

   Part ofgenus Homo

Other forms of neanderthal

plural

neanderthals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about neanderthal

What does neanderthal mean?

neanderthal means "ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in neanderthal?

neanderthal has 4 syllables: ne-an-der-thal. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /niˈændɚˌθɔl/.

What is another word for neanderthal?

Close synonyms include boorish, loutish, neandertal, oafish, swinish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is neanderthal a common word?

neanderthal is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.