atavistic

Speech parts

1. atavistic - Adjective

2. atavistic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

characteristic of an atavist

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

throwback aboriginal natural simple primal genetic primitive innate rudimentary naive reactionary austere recessive congenital pristine
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Antonyms

new high modern current late foreign
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Related terms

atavism atavist

Examples

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic. Don DeLillo

Dance, in general, has become more atavistic than artistic. Ilana Mercer

Blaine remembered how strange, dark, atavistic and noble Hull's lordly selection of death has seemed. Pretentious, of course; but then, life itself was a pretension in the vast universe of unliving matter. Robert Sheckley

Asexual reproduction by females, parthenogenesis, is not only possible but it still occurs here and there in the modern world, pernaps as an atavistic survival of the once only means of reproduction in an all female world. Elizabeth Gould Davis

Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect. Howard Blum

I'm not a very violent dude, and if something can be settled without any physicality, I'm always in favor of that. But if somebody comes near my kids, the atavistic crazy lion comes out. Stephen Moyer

Close letter words and terms

atavic atavism atavist atavistical atavistically ataxanomic