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plural of Neanderthal
Synonyms & Antonyms of Neanderthals
1
a big clumsy often slow-witted person
- they looked like a tribe of Neanderthals compared to the bridegroom's patrician-looking family
Synonyms for Neanderthals
Words Related to Neanderthals
- chumps,
- losers,
- schlemiels
- (also shlemiels),
- turkeys
- airheads,
- birdbrains,
- blockheads,
- blunderers,
- boneheads,
- bubbleheads,
- chowderheads,
- chuckleheads,
- clodpolls
- (or clodpoles),
- clots
- [British],
- clucks,
- clunks,
- cuddies
- [British dialect],
- deadheads,
- dim bulbs
- [slang],
- dimwits,
- dips,
- dodoes
- (or dodos),
- dolts,
- donkeys,
- doofuses
- (also dufuses)
- [slang],
- dopes,
- dorks
- [slang],
- dullards,
- dumbbells,
- dumbheads,
- dum-dums,
- dummies,
- dummkopfs,
- dunces,
- dunderheads,
- fatheads,
- galoots
- [slang],
- ganders,
- golems,
- goofs,
- goons,
- half-wits,
- hammerheads,
- hardheads,
- idiots,
- ignoramuses
- (also ignorami),
- imbeciles,
- jackasses,
- know-nothings,
- knuckleheads,
- lamebrains,
- loggerheads
- [chiefly dialect],
- loons,
- lunkheads,
- meatheads,
- momes
- [archaic],
- morons,
- mugs
- [chiefly British],
- mutts,
- naturals,
- nimrods
- [slang],
- nincompoops,
- ninnies,
- ninnyhammers,
- nits
- [chiefly British],
- nitwits,
- noddies,
- noodles,
- numskulls
- (or numbskulls),
- pinheads,
- prats
- [British],
- ratbags
- [chiefly Australian],
- sapheads,
- schlubs
- (also shlubs)
- [slang],
- schnooks
- [slang],
- simpletons,
- simps,
- stocks,
- stupes,
- stupids,
- thickheads,
- turkeys,
- woodenheads,
- yahoos,
- yo-yos
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2
a man with crude manners and habits and outmoded attitudes
- made the mistake of dining with some Neanderthal who repeatedly mistook his shirtsleeve for a napkin
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