(~s)
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 ~, you disapprove of him because you think he behaves in a very uncivilized way.
...drunken ~s.
N-COUNT disapproval