What is another word for atavistic?
607 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ˌatɐvˈɪstɪk], [ ˌatɐvˈɪstɪk], [ ˌa_t_ɐ_v_ˈɪ_s_t_ɪ_k]
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Synonyms for Atavistic:
adj.
• all (adjective) • Other relevant words: (adjective) • primitive (adjective)n.
• ancient (noun) • atavistic (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)Other synonyms:
• hereditary • Other relevant words:- hold,
- reversion,
- unknowledgeable,
- churl,
- corporeal,
- staple,
- extreme right-winger,
- disposal,
- weenie,
- simple-minded,
- unlettered,
- crude oil,
- godforsaken,
- firedog,
- computer program,
- detent,
- customs,
- biological,
- lowbrow,
- twirl,
- vehement,
- uninitiated,
- inbuilt,
- cardinal,
- blackguard,
- reversionist,
- carry,
- contractable,
- twist,
- tool,
- frankfurter,
- rehash,
- natural state,
- claim,
- take aim,
- lifelike,
- recollective,
- idle,
- angry,
- brutal,
- frizzle,
- root,
- faraway,
- bare-ass,
- outback,
- consider,
- usance,
- trend,
- bounder,
- bowelless,
- unproblematic,
- plan,
- chase,
- yearn,
- hot dog,
- master copy,
- trail,
- constituent,
- power,
- peak,
- course of study,
- betimes,
- tyke,
- bad-mannered,
- communicable,
- pack,
- longsighted,
- everyday,
- indigene,
- master,
- boisterous,
- admit,
- antediluvial,
- free radical,
- direct,
- kink up,
- bleak,
- stark naked,
- dotty,
- aim,
- take away,
- feral,
- regress,
- dieting,
- crick,
- contemporaneous,
- blossom,
- basal,
- risky,
- get,
- autochthonal,
- scratchy,
- beast,
- ill-bred,
- upstage,
- have,
- payoff,
- retentive,
- fantastic,
- contract,
- uninitiate,
- unsubdivided,
- primitive person,
- cancel,
- shoot,
- prospicient,
- engage,
- select,
- andiron,
- base,
- drill,
- unprocessed,
- apply,
- contemporary,
- bumpkinly,
- strike,
- animate being,
- fleshly,
- grating,
- in the buff,
- farsighted,
- developing,
- repeater,
- bodied,
- extremist,
- movable,
- bring,
- genic,
- chemical group,
- subroutine,
- jolty,
- turn,
- exact,
- theme,
- revolutionary,
- canonical,
- unwarranted,
- uncivilised,
- click,
- acquire,
- ultraconservative,
- curl,
- study,
- goth,
- program,
- corporate,
- prehistorical,
- necessitate,
- tempestuous,
- uncut,
- frank,
- practice session,
- squeeze,
- lowbrowed,
- inherent,
- tilt,
- force out,
- list,
- farseeing,
- dog-iron,
- jolting,
- organic fertilizer,
- retrogress,
- familial,
- unremarkable,
- retreat,
- wilderness,
- moody,
- naif,
- lean,
- habitual criminal,
- violence,
- bestial,
- antediluvian patriarch,
- hound,
- go after,
- new,
- tradition,
- impost,
- raving mad,
- choose,
- mundane,
- undercoat,
- gaga,
- sensitive,
- bare,
- wide-eyed,
- heel,
- subprogram,
- ahead of time,
- bit,
- in the raw,
- rough out,
- lead,
- rite,
- blast,
- peasant,
- unknowing,
- yield,
- procedure,
- naked as a jaybird,
- cognate,
- commit,
- wienerwurst,
- accept,
- recessive allele,
- takings,
- primaeval,
- severe,
- raging,
- tail,
- foresightful,
- lease,
- tag,
- pattern,
- oil,
- military unit,
- transportable,
- remove,
- round-eyed,
- patrimonial,
- uncivil,
- transmitted,
- vicious,
- wight,
- two-sided,
- storm,
- choice,
- subscribe,
- hotdog,
- too soon,
- look at,
- embody,
- fundamental,
- modus operandi,
- rehearse,
- substantiate,
- fossil oil,
- meridian,
- nescient,
- rent,
- atilt,
- rampantly,
- fell,
- need,
- roughly,
- thrust,
- drug abuse,
- mechanical man,
- ground,
- tenacious,
- recitation,
- require,
- stark,
- deal,
- prize,
- peeled,
- broadcast,
- fauna,
- cad,
- catching,
- key,
- hanker,
- assignable,
- frizz,
- stern,
- unmannerly,
- furious,
- boor,
- remote control,
- prime quantity,
- baseless,
- brute,
- other,
- blunt,
- custom-made,
- negotiable,
- rocky,
- curve,
- proceeds,
- personnel,
- military group,
- quotidian,
- tender,
- raspy,
- substance abuse,
- preference,
- stem,
- premier,
- hazardous,
- ferocious,
- crimp,
- erratic,
- quality,
- act,
- aborigine,
- illiterate,
- altogether,
- aptness,
- return,
- hick,
- rick,
- ram,
- underlying,
- ultra,
- subscribe to,
- track,
- exercise,
- embodied,
- birthday suit,
- curriculum,
- workaday,
- conduct,
- wiener,
- pugnacious,
- forcefulness,
- push,
- train,
- backslider,
- withdraw,
- trigger-happy,
- temperament,
- wedge,
- sensitivity,
- far-right,
- take on,
- uncomplicated,
- yokelish,
- charter,
- recessionary,
- use,
- integral,
- ill-mannered,
- android,
- wildcat,
- pick out,
- dewy-eyed,
- state of nature,
- in the altogether,
- hash over,
- unschooled,
- mere,
- naked,
- give chase,
- uninstructed,
- bare-assed,
- reactionist,
- ascetic,
- issue,
- atavist,
- barbaric,
- somatic,
- forcible,
- rasping,
- praxis,
- fill,
- sensual,
- number,
- strong-arm,
- pillory,
- unwitting,
- elementary,
- canted,
- function,
- learn,
- get hold of,
- group,
- root word,
- central,
- ask,
- use up,
- wolf,
- bounderish,
- dim-witted,
- hale,
- call for,
- contagious,
- rough in,
- unconditioned,
- riding habit,
- make,
- wrick,
- tipped,
- conveyable,
- pressure,
- adopt,
- jumpy,
- moveable,
- unsanded,
- usage,
- taste,
- unexploited,
- built-in,
- beastly,
- underbred,
- take in,
- submit,
- cutting,
- earthy,
- strength,
- read,
- ingenuous,
- gravelly,
- assume,
- roughshod,
- pilot,
- crazy,
- genetical,
- gross,
- aloof,
- chase after,
- syllabus,
- film,
- tilted,
- constitutive,
- military force,
- involve,
- retral,
- atavism,
- transmittable,
- unmannered,
- contain,
- waste,
- coerce,
- drive,
- ingest,
- rustic,
- spartan,
- approximative,
- bloom,
- guide,
- lowbred,
- canonic,
- efflorescence,
- foresighted,
- consume,
- puppet,
- unworldly,
- outside,
- unenlightened,
- occupy,
- unsmooth,
- introductory,
- convey,
- impel,
- violent,
- domestic dog,
- frump,
- flush,
- endemic,
- rock oil,
- former,
- harsh,
- ascetical,
- practise,
- tearing,
- sore,
- flower,
- cutthroat,
- effect,
- force-out,
- autochthonic,
- crucify,
- pawl,
- simpleton,
- vulgar,
- predilection,
- petroleum,
- carnal,
- body forth,
- corporal,
- cruel,
- tike,
- bumpy,
- inclination,
- archetype,
- childly,
- hire,
- heyday,
- crape,
- groundless,
- coetaneous,
- customs duty,
- prime of life,
- demand,
- early on,
- unfounded,
- take up,
- indigen,
- mannerism,
- postulate,
- approximate,
- force play.
- native,
- incarnate,
- inheritable,
- patriarchal,
- coeval,
- constitutional,
- crude,
- prime,
- congenital,
- antediluvian,
- retroverse,
- primordial,
- reversionary,
- protohuman,
- connatural,
- inborn,
- recessive,
- antepatriarchal,
- Primogenial,
- retrorse,
- early,
- aboriginal,
- hereditary,
- innate,
- retrogressive,
- recidivist,
- Preadamite,
- pristine,
- transmissible,
- prehuman,
- original,
- antiquated,
- returnable,
- basic,
- inherited,
- reversible,
- primeval,
- born,
- connate,
- native to,
- instinctive,
- autochthonous,
- humanoid,
- prehistoric,
- Preglacial,
- natural,
- organic,
- physical,
- instinctual,
- radical,
- archaic,
- transferrable,
- genetic,
- inbred,
- retrograde,
- indigenous,
- transferable,
- in the blood,
- revertible,
- artless,
- temperamental,
- bodily,
- primal,
- reactionary,
- Recidivous,
- heritable.
How to use "Atavistic" in context?
Atavistic describes something or someone that is founded on the principles of atavism, which is the re-emergence of inherited characteristics in a new species. These characteristic can vary from physical features to behaviors. These phenomena can be seen in animals, humans and even plants.
Homophones for Atavistic:
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rejuvenator
- Synonyms:
- enlivener, reformist, refresher, renovator, restorer, Modernizer, Regenerator, Reviver, recharger.