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Meaning of "atavic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ATAVIC

atavic  [əˈtævɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ATAVIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Atavic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ATAVIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of atavic in the English dictionary

The definition of atavic in the dictionary is of or relating to atavism.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ATAVIC


agravic
eɪˈɡrævɪk
anticivic
ˌæntɪˈsɪvɪk
Balto-Slavic
ˈbɔːltəʊˈslɑːvɪk
Bolshevik
ˈbɒlʃɪvɪk
civic
ˈsɪvɪk
Menshevik
ˈmɛnʃɪvɪk
motivic
məʊˈtɪvɪk
Narvik
ˈnɑːvɪk
Pan-Slavic
ˈpænˈslɑːvɪk
pelvic
ˈpɛlvɪk
Slavic
ˈslɑːvɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ATAVIC

atacamite
atactic
ataghan
Atahualpa
Atalanta
ataman
atamasco
atap
ataractic
ataraxia
ataraxic
ataraxy
atavism
atavist
atavistic
atavistically
ataxia
ataxic
ataxy

WORDS THAT END LIKE ATAVIC

Church Slavic
Gasparovic
member of the public
music
Old Church Slavic
Old Slavic
organic
pacific
pic
plastic
public
republic
romantic
scientific
slivovic
specific
static
strategic
topic
traffic

Synonyms and antonyms of atavic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «atavic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ATAVIC

Find out the translation of atavic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of atavic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «atavic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

atavic
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

atávico
570 millions of speakers

English

atavic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

atavic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تأسلي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

atavic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

atávico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অবিচল বা অচঞ্চল অবস্থা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

atavique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ataraxy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

atavistischen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

atavic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

atavic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ataraxy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

atavic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ataraxy
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अटेरॅक्सी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ataraksiya
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

atavico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

atavic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

atavic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

atavic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

atavic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

atavic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

atavic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

atavic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of atavic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ATAVIC»

The term «atavic» is used very little and occupies the 170.777 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ATAVIC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about atavic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ATAVIC»

Discover the use of atavic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to atavic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review Or ...
In this case it should be noticed that, in addition to limitation by age and sex, there is very strong evidence in favour of atavic transmission, similar in character to that which has not unfrequently been observed in cases of the haemorrhagic ...
2
British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly ...
to be noticed that the disease was transmitted by atavic descent from the paternal grandmother to three grand-daughters, and that although there were five grandsons in the family, uoue of them inherited the disease. In another case which has ...
3
Freewomen and Supermen: Edwardian Radicals and Literary ...
26 Another pre-war poet, John Davidson, a poet not associated with modernist form, links the train more generally, rather than just the tube, to an 'atavic' (sic) democracy. Andrew Thacker, in his fascinating study of space and geography in  ...
Anne Fernihough, 2013
4
Popular Science
Moreover, all cases of atavic reversion, or degeneration, of fruit varieties from their fine quality have apparently been unaccompanied by any material change in the plants bearing the degenerating fruit. Frequently special reference to those  ...
5
Animal Colour Changes and Their Neurohumours: A Survey of ...
So far as we know the survival of cells secreting intermedine in the mammalian pituitary represents an atavic heirloom since intermedine is principally of interest as a hormone dispersing pigment granules in cells of certain fishes, amphibia ...
George Howard Parker, 2012
6
Animal Colour Changes and Their Neurohumours
So far as we know the survival of cells secreting intermedine in the mammalian pituitary represents an atavic heirloom since intermedine is principally of interest as a hormone dispersing pigment granules in cells of certain fishes, amphibia ...
7
The Hormones V2: Physiology, Chemistry and Applications
So far as we know the survival of cells secreting intermedine in the mammalian pituitary represents an atavic heirloom since intermedine is principally of interest as a hormone dispersing pigment granules in cells of certain fishes, amphibia ...
Gregory Pincus, Kenneth Vivian Thimann, 1950
8
Science
But the truth of the reputed atavic mutation was afterward repeatedly demonstrated on the Bayou Teche plantation under Miss Starr's observation by growing and maturing plants from seed of fruit which was grown there from northern seed.
9
Animal Breeding
quency of the light thigh in the Hereford, notwithstanding the efforts of breeders to remove it during recent decades, illustrates atavic transmission relating to form. The occasional appearance of a belted Galloway furnishes an illustration of ...
Thomas Shaw, 1913
10
The International Socialist Review
They each separated the crimes based on fraud from the crimes involving violence, calling the first "evolutionary criminality" and the second "atavic criminality," according as the crime took the primitive forms of muscular struggle for existence, ...
Algie Martin Simons, Charles H. Kerr, 1901

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ATAVIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term atavic is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Cyber security in US power system suffering from reactive, self …
atavic · 769 days ago. It's the smart way to screen the consumer... More houses are screened through so-called smart devices that call home ... «Naked Security, May 13»
2
E-cigs: a filterless reflection
Between fashion, palliative, hi-tech solution and an atavic addiction problem, e-cigarettes have spread so rapidly that legislation had no time to ... «West - Welfare Society Territory, Feb 13»
3
Anatomia unei descoperiri: manuscrisele de la Qumran între …
Shanks a fost lupa prin care a ieşit la iveală o întreagă fenomenologie a activităţii intelectuale din cîmpul qumranologiei şi a revelat ataşamentul atavic faţă de ... «ObservatorCultural.ro, Aug 09»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Atavic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/atavic>. May 2024 ».
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