'atavistic' definitions:
Definition of 'atavistic'
From: WordNet
adjective
Characteristic of an atavist [syn: atavistic, throwback(a)]
Synonyms of 'atavistic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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