noun
- Extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia.
adjective
- Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance.
- usage: "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
- synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, oafish, swinish
- Relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man.
- usage: "Neanderthal skull"
- synonyms: Neanderthalian, Neandertal
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