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How to pronounce neanderthal in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms homo sapiens neanderthalensis, neandertal, neandertal man, neanderthal man
Type of homo, human, human being, man
Derivation neanderthalian
Type Words
Synonyms neandertal, neanderthalian
Type Words
Synonyms boorish, loutish, neandertal, oafish, swinish

Examples of neanderthal

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Neanderthal interaction with Cro-Magnons remains a vigorous topic of discussion.
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Lets hope this little empire doesn't come tumbling down on your neanderthal head.
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Neanderthal remains have been found at a number of sites on the Iberian Peninsula.
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Maybe the neanderthal is simply trying his best to communicate what he feels?
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But i'm probably wasting my time expecting a neanderthal to appreciate that.
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Please don't tar the rest of our gender with your neanderthal beliefs.
From the economist.com
If it would be human, father could had been neanderthal and vice versa.
From the newscientist.com
You came across as being a bit of a neanderthal on Celebrity Wife Swap.
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Neanderthal remains also have been discovered at a cave site in Georgia.
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  • Neandertal man: extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia
  • Boorish: ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
  • Relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man; "Neanderthal skull"
  • Neanderthal is a single by the British electronica group, Fila Brazillia, released on Twentythree Records in 2007.
  • Man Is the Bastard were a pioneering hardcore punk band who contributed the name, and perhaps also the ethos, to the punk subgenre known as power violence. Based in Claremont, California, the band existed from 1991 to 1997, releasing many vinyl records on obscure labels from around the world.
  • Neanderthal is a 1996 bestselling novel written by John Darnton.
  • A specimen of the now extinct species Homo neanderthalensis; A primitive person; Of or pertaining to Homines neanderthalenses; Old-fashioned, opposed to change (in allusion to Homo neanderthalensis); Of or pertaining to the Neander Valley in Germany
  • (Neanderthals) Species of genus Homo that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period. (p. 12)
  • The Neanderthals (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) were Stone Age hunter-gatherers, who lived in Europe 35,000 to 100,000 years ago. They got their name from the Neander Valley, in Germany, where their first skeletal remains were discovered in 1856. ...