Crossword-Solution: ATAVIC
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Atavic | a. | Pertaining to a remote ancestor, or to atavism. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ATAVIC | anagram | ACTIVA, CATAVI |
We have 4 clues for the answer “ATAVIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Of forefathers. | 1 answer |
| Of remote ancestors. | 1 answer |
| Remotely ancestral. | 1 answer |
| Like a throwback | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ATAVIC (5)
Prichard, quoted by Sedgwick, speaks of a case of atavic transmission of albinism through the male line of the negro race.
They all spoke in a rough manner; their grammar and word-forms were incorrect; language in them leaped backwards into a curious atavic regression.
And, at the same time, through his mind had passed the intuitive anxiety for other places, for the thousand other things that one may see or do in this world and which one may enjoy; a chaos of troubling half thoughts, of atavic reminiscences and of phantoms had furtively marked themselves in the depths of his savage child's mind-- For Ramuntcho was a mixture of two races very different and of two beings separated, if one may say it, by an abyss of several generations.
The man was struggling with the atavic impulse to thrash the maddening, arrogant woman creature into a humbler frame of mind.
Violent and muscular at first, the struggle is becoming, more and more, pacific and intellectual, notwithstanding some atavic recurrences of earlier methods or some psycho-pathological manifestations of individual violence against society and of social violence against individuals.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1949–1991).