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Meaning of ATAVISTIC

Pronunciation:  `atu'vistik

 
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 Definition: 
[adj]  characteristic of an atavist
 

ATAVISTIC is a 9 letter word that starts with A.

 

 Synonyms: regressive, throwback(a)
 

 

 

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 Related Terms: aboriginal, ancestral, antepatriarchal, autochthonous, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, genetic, hereditary, humanoid, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, native, native to, natural, natural to, organic, patriarchal, physical, preadamite, preglacial, prehistoric, prehuman, primal, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, primoprimitive, primordial, pristine, protohistoric, protohuman, reactionary, recessive, recidivist, recidivous, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, retrorse, retroverse, returnable, reversible, reversional, reversionary, revertible, revulsionary, temperamental
 

 

 

 

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