as in barbarians
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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Recent Examples of cavemen
The findings add to a growing body of evidence that Neanderthals — our closest extinct human relatives — were cognitively and psychologically more similar to modern humans than previously thought, rather than the simple-minded, brutish cavemen of earlier stereotypes.
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Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
13 May 2026
The strip explored the life of a group of cavemen and their anthropomorphic animals and dinosaurs in prehistoric times, and has been in production for nearly 70 years, currently managed by Hart’s family.
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Arushi Jacob,
Variety,
2 Apr. 2026
Then language itself breaks apart into letters and sounds, grunted like cavemen incanting around a campfire.
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Theater Critic,
San Francisco Chronicle,
15 Nov. 2024
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
13 May 2026
The strip explored the life of a group of cavemen and their anthropomorphic animals and dinosaurs in prehistoric times, and has been in production for nearly 70 years, currently managed by Hart’s family.
—
Arushi Jacob,
Variety,
2 Apr. 2026
Then language itself breaks apart into letters and sounds, grunted like cavemen incanting around a campfire.
—
Theater Critic,
San Francisco Chronicle,
15 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cavemen
Noun
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There are barbarians with battle axes and swords, robots with laser guns, spaceships, a warlock with a skull for a face.
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In most academic histories of European imperialism written in this century, the Europeans are the barbarians, killing and raping and looting on an unprecedented scale.
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The ranch is home to a couple of hundred animals, including impalas, Nubian ibexes and an antelope found in Central Africa.
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Dogs Inherited The ‘Wolf Pack’ Obligation Wolves are what biologists call obligate social hunters, that is, animals whose survival depends not just on being with others, but on coordinating with them.
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Many wonders made the list, including royal burial grounds in Egypt, an Indonesian archipelago of 1,500 islands and Turkish cliffs formerly inhabited by Bronze Age troglodytes (cave dwellers).
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“Cavemen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cavemen. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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