transcription, транскрипция: [ niændə(r)tɑ:l, -θɔ:l ]
( neanderthals)
1.
Neanderthal people lived in Europe between 35,000 and 70,000 years ago.
Neanderthal man was able to kill woolly mammoths and bears.
ADJ : ADJ n
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You can refer to people from the Neanderthal period as Neanderthals .
N-COUNT : usu pl
2.
If you describe people’s, especially men’s, ideas or ways of behaving as Neanderthal , you disapprove of them because they are very old-fashioned and uncivilized.
Let us deal with the question of his notoriously Neanderthal attitude to women.
ADJ : usu ADJ n [ disapproval ]
3.
If you call a man a neanderthal , you disapprove of him because you think he behaves in a very uncivilized way.
...drunken neanderthals.
N-COUNT [ disapproval ]