1. atavistic - Adjective
2. atavistic - Adjective Satellite
characteristic of an atavist
Source: WordNetIn 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