'throwback' definitions:
Definition of 'throwback'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'throwback'
From: GCIDE
- throwback \throw"back\, n.
- 1. the reappearance in an organism of characteristics of an earlier ancestral type; atavism. [PJC]
- 2. an organisms having characteristics of an earlier ancestral type. [PJC] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'throwback'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- atavism,
- backset,
- backsliding,
- backward deviation,
- backward motion,
- backward step,
- check,
- comedown,
- descent,
- down,
- falling back,
- lapse,
- reaction,
- recession,
- recidivation,
- recidivism,
- recrudescence,
- recurrence,
- reentry,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regress,
- regression,
- relapse,
- renewal,
- retroaction,
- retrocession,
- retroflexion,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- retrusion,
- return,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- reverse of fortune,
- reversion,
- rollback,
- setback,
- severe check,
- sternway