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1. Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behaviour or appearance
   "was neanderthal and insensitive";
   - boorish, loutish, neandertal, oafish, swinish

1. Relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man
   "Neanderthal skull";
   - Neanderthalian, Neandertal

1. Extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia
   - Neandertal man, Neanderthal man, Neandertal, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis

Derived forms: Neanderthals

See also: unrefined

Type of: homo, human, human being, man

Part of: genus Homo

Encyclopedia: Neanderthal, Germany