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atavistic
adjective
(at-a-vis-tic)
characteristic of an atavist
Synonyms:
throwback
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atavistic
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regressive
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throwback
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ancestral
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throwbacks
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primal
,
instinctual
,
primeval
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primitive
,
instinctive
,
unreasoning
,
innate
,
irrational
,
primordial
,
ethnocentric
,
animistic
,
animalistic
,
unthinking
,
ineradicable
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vestigial
,
subconscious
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chauvinistic
,
bestial
,
perverse
,
hubristic
,
puritanical
,
pantheistic
,
anthropological
,
unrepressed
,
reflexive
,
onanistic
,
chthonic
,
delusory
,
edenic
,
whiggish
,
oedipal
,
antediluvian
,
antinomian
,
anomic
,
libidinal
,
prelapsarian
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purblind
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millennialist
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nietzschean
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revanchist
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unappeasable
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individualist
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pavlovian
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universalistic
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untempered
,
perfervid
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ratlike
,
oligarchical
,
religionist
,
anthropocentric
,
unreasoned
,
polymorphous
,
religio
,
unmodern
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gimcrack
,
wordsworthian
,
infantile
,
archetypally
,
sheeplike
,
muddleheaded
,
assimilative
,
nonrational
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ravening
,
unquiet
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baser
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speciesist
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positivistic
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substanceless
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sophistic
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obsessional
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anglophilic
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dostoevskian
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civilizing
,
ineluctable
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saurian
,
particularist
,
teutonic
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inchoate
,
paleolithic
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demoniacal
,
rebarbative
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unassimilable
,
unoffending
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maleficent
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puritan
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sensate
,
creaturely
,
inextinguishable
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chivalric
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ideational
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originary
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rationalistic
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incommunicable
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unquenchable
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consumerist
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neanderthal
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atavistic
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