Crossword-Solution: ATAVISTIC
We have 21 clues for the answer “ATAVISTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| of or relating to reversion to a former or more primitive type | 1 answer |
| Of throwbacks | 1 answer |
| Resembling remote ancestors. | 1 answer |
| CHARACTERISTIC OF AN ATAVIST | 11 answers |
| diagnostic | 20 answers |
| bred in the bone | 26 answers |
| Deep down? | 27 answers |
| Ingredient | 40 answers |
| inward | 42 answers |
| In-born | 44 answers |
| Inherited | 45 answers |
| Genetic | 45 answers |
| Inbred | 48 answers |
| characterising | 51 answers |
| intrinsic | 60 answers |
| Personal | 62 answers |
| Antique | 68 answers |
| Native | 72 answers |
| CHARACTERISTIC ___ | 85 answers |
| BASIC ___ | 88 answers |
| ANCIENT ___ | 90 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ATAVISTIC (5)
But some strains of germplasm carry an excessive freightage of memories—are, to be scientific, more atavistic than other strains; and such a strain is mine.
And all my austere nights of midnight oil, all the books I had read, all the wisdom I had gathered, went glimmering before the ape and tiger in me that crawled up from the abysm of my heredity, atavistic, competitive and brutal, lustful with strength and desire to outswine the swine.
Hayward sought his acquaintance; but Philip had an unfortunate trait: from shyness or from some atavistic inheritance of the cave-dweller, he always disliked people on first acquaintance; and it was not till he became used to them that he got over his first impression.
There are plenty of persons to‐day—“scientists” or “positivists,” they are fond of calling themselves—who will tell you that religious thought is a mere survival, an atavistic reversion to a type of consciousness which humanity in its more enlightened examples has long since left behind and outgrown.
There is a notion in the air about us that religion is probably only an anachronism, a case of “survival,” an atavistic relapse into a mode of thought which humanity in its more enlightened examples has outgrown; and this notion our religious anthropologists at present do little to counteract.
Quotes with ATAVISTIC (3)
A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.
Naphta loathed the bourgeois state and its love of security. He found occasion to express this loathing one autumn afternoon when, as they were walking along the main street, it suddenly began to rain and, as if on command, there was an umbrella over every head. That was a symbol of cowardice and vulgar effeminacy, the end product of civilization. An incident like the sinking of the Titanic was atavistic, true, but its effect was most refreshing, it was the handwriting on the…
Obviously it was happenstance, but it did change my opinion of human nature. I now saw war as a constant, akin to wildfires. They break out unless you work actively to prevent them. It’s an atavistic thing, buried deep in our DNA.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1953–2018).