as in barbarian
a man with crude manners and habits and outmoded attitudes
married a caveman who spends all his free time swigging beer and watching sports on TV
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From the time of cavemen and hieroglyphics, humans have been storytellers.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
That is now as pathetic to me as a fetid caveman’s toolmaking would be to a great thinker like da Vinci or even Edgar Allen Poe.
—Graham Techler, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2025
Even cavemen, in ancient, simpler times, could not merely sit around in cave admiring/praising one another, but had to hunt, fight, compete with members of own group for status.
—George Saunders, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2025
In their first outing, the Croods managed to carve out a niche for themselves that distinguished these cavemen from everybody’s favorite modern Stone Age family.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
That is now as pathetic to me as a fetid caveman’s toolmaking would be to a great thinker like da Vinci or even Edgar Allen Poe.
—Graham Techler, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2025
Even cavemen, in ancient, simpler times, could not merely sit around in cave admiring/praising one another, but had to hunt, fight, compete with members of own group for status.
—George Saunders, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2025
In their first outing, the Croods managed to carve out a niche for themselves that distinguished these cavemen from everybody’s favorite modern Stone Age family.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for caveman
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Las Casas thought that the real barbarians weren’t the Indians but the Spaniards.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2025
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Scott himself was a bit like one of these barbarians, constantly attacking and unsettling a seemingly stable consensus on the value of state power, and of civilization itself.—
Nikil Saval,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The 1,000-pound animals peep their heads from the white stalls, while others amble in circles inside the barn's wooden fence.—
Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
12 May 2025
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Why Reinforcement Learning Matters Now The core idea behind reinforcement learning is for a system to learn in the same manner that people and animals learn—by taking actions and adjusting through trial-and-error.—
Cam Linke,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
Noun
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His lab’s studies have shed light on how humans migrated and adapted to new environments and how traits linked to Neanderthal DNA are gradually being eliminated from the modern human genome.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
12 May 2025
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Archaeologists recently unearthed a bone projectile point someone dropped on a cave floor between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago—which, based on its location, means that said someone must have been a Neanderthal.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
1 May 2025
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Mini Winnie is a western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus), a subspecies whose numbers have plummeted by more than 80% in the last two decades.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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Warren Buffet was considered a technical troglodyte for never investing in the dot-com boom.—
Neil Senturia,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Caveman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caveman. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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