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I'm not a very violent dude, and if something can be settled without any physicality, I'm always in favor of that. But if somebody comes near my kids, the atavistic crazy lion comes out.
Stephen Moyer

Meaning of "atavistic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ATAVISTIC

atavistic  [ˌætəˈvɪstɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ATAVISTIC

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

WHAT DOES ATAVISTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

atavistic

Atavism

Atavism is the tendency to revert to ancestral type. In biology, an atavism is an evolutionary throwback, such as traits reappearing which had disappeared generations before. Atavisms can occur in several ways. One way is when genes for previously existing phenotypical features are preserved in DNA, and these become expressed through a mutation that either knock out the overriding genes for the new traits or make the old traits override the new one. A number of traits can vary as a result of shortening of the fetal development of a trait or by prolongation of the same. In such a case, a shift in the time a trait is allowed to develop before it is fixed can bring forth an ancestral phenotype. In the social sciences, atavism is a cultural tendency—for example, people in the modern era reverting to the ways of thinking and acting of a former time. The word atavism is derived from the Latin atavus. An atavus is a great-great-great-grandfather or, more generally, an ancestor.

Definition of atavistic in the English dictionary

The definition of atavistic in the dictionary is of or relating to reversion to a former or more primitive type.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ATAVISTIC


activistic
ˌæktɪˈvɪstɪk
artistic
ɑːˈtɪstɪk
Bolshevistic
ˈbɒlʃəvɪstɪk
characteristic
ˌkærɪktəˈrɪstɪk
collectivistic
kəˌlɛktɪˈvɪstɪk
holistic
həʊˈlɪstɪk
Jahvistic
jɑːˈvɪstɪk
Jehovistic
ˌdʒiːhəʊˈvɪstɪk
nativistic
ˌneɪtɪˈvɪstɪk
negativistic
ˌnɛɡətɪˈvɪstɪk
nonrelativistic
ˌnɒnˌrɛlətɪˈvɪstɪk
objectivistic
əbˌdʒektɪˈvɪstɪk
polycystic
ˌpɒlɪˈsɪstɪk
primitivistic
ˌprɪmɪtɪˈvɪstɪk
progressivistic
prəˌɡresɪˈvɪstɪk
realistic
ˌrɪəˈlɪstɪk
recidivistic
rɪˌsɪdɪˈvɪstɪk
relativistic
ˌrɛlətɪˈvɪstɪk
subjectivistic
səbˌdʒɛktɪˈvɪstɪk
Yahvistic
jɑːˈvɪstɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ATAVISTIC

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE ATAVISTIC

anachronistic
autistic
ballistic
deterministic
domestic
futuristic
heuristic
journalistic
linguistic
logistic
mechanistic
minimalistic
opportunistic
optimistic
probabilistic
sadistic
simplistic
statistic
stylistic
synergistic
unrealistic

Synonyms and antonyms of atavistic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «atavistic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ATAVISTIC

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

Translator English - Chinese

返祖
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

atávica
570 millions of speakers

English

atavistic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

संज्ञाहीन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تأسلي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

атавистическая
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

atávico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

atavist
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

atavique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Atavist
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

atavistisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

隔世遺伝の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

격세 유전
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Atavist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tính di truyền
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

atavist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एनाविस्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

atacı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

atavico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

atawistyczne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

атавістична
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

atavică
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

atavistic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

atavistiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

atavistiska
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

atavistic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of atavistic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ATAVISTIC»

The term «atavistic» is regularly used and occupies the 70.096 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ATAVISTIC» OVER TIME

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

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5 QUOTES WITH «ATAVISTIC»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word atavistic.
1
Howard Blum
Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.
2
Don DeLillo
In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
3
John Keegan
I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.
4
Penelope Lively
Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.
5
Stephen Moyer
I'm not a very violent dude, and if something can be settled without any physicality, I'm always in favor of that. But if somebody comes near my kids, the atavistic crazy lion comes out.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ATAVISTIC»

Discover the use of atavistic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to atavistic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Atavistic Tendencies: The Culture of Science in American ...
In this original and stimulating work, Dana Seitler explores the ways in which modernity itself is an atavism, shaping a historical and theoretical account of its dramatic rise and impact on Western culture and imagination.
Dana Seitler, 2008
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Mind
Assuming that criminal conduct is an instance of moral atavism, we are led to ask whether this undeveloped form of conduct is the outcome of atavistic characteristics in the individual who is addicted to it. It is the purpose of Dr Lombroso's ...
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Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication
If the sfourth chromosome causes the difference between the short-Notch and the atavistic type it would be expected that some of the males crossed to short-Notch females would give one result and some another (3:1). There were five cultures ...
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Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic
In the predecessor to this book, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend, Brodman and Doan presented discussions of the development of the vampire in the West from the early Norse draugr figure to the medieval European ...
Barbara Brodman, James E. Doan, 2013
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High Magic II: Expanded Theory and Practice
The main representative of atavistic magic in the Western world, to whom we owe the term “atavistic nostalgia”, was Austin Osman Spare. However, such concepts as power animal, totem animal, or clan animal (to be discussed in the next ...
Frater U. D., 2008
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Crime: Critical Concepts in Sociology
ATAVISTIC. MAN. Carol. Smart. Source: L. Gelsthorpe and A. Morris, Feminist Perspectives in Criminology, Open University Press, 1992, pp. 70-84. Some ten years ago it was de rigueur to start any paper on this topic with a reference to the  ...
Philip Bean, 2003
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Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club
One group, also from a cruciate mother, produced twenty-two typical and eight atavistic individuals, meaning thereby those with broad obcordate petals. Intermediate types were wanting. So it was with the fourth group, the children of an ...
8
Apprehending the Inaccessible: Freudian Psychoanalysis and ...
The. Atavistic. Spirit. or. “the. Monster. of. Energy”: Origins. of. Freud's. Synthesizing. Mind. 1. That individual philosophical concepts are not anything capricious or autonomously evolving, but grow up in connection and relationship with each ...
Richard Askay, Jensen Farquhar, 2006
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International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics
Unconscious homosexuality was only one factor in the alcoholic psyche; atavistic reminiscences played an important role. Atavism occurred in both healthy and abnormal states, but especially in the alcoholic one came close to atavistic ...
10
The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association
In long continued ill health, however, a number of atavistic cells may be found ; it appears probable that in many of these cases there was also some mal- development. This is the more evident when it is noticed that those patients with marked ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ATAVISTIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term atavistic is used in the context of the following news items.
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High Tech Guru George Gilder Demolishes A Critical Myth About …
Old does not equal atavistic. Now let's get modern. It is less paradoxical than might superficially appear that George Gilder comes forward to ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
2
ON THE WATER: Initiation toll is not a rational number
... as a means of preventing HIV transmission cynically exploits the atavistic notion that manhood is contingent on the condition of the prepuce. «BDlive, Jul 15»
3
#dnaEdit: SECC data gives a reality check
... country had moved so far ahead on the road to enlightened modernism that it seemed atavistic to go back to millennia-old caste stratification. «Daily News & Analysis, Jul 15»
4
Egyptian TV series shines light on the untold story of Arab Jews
... in diametric opposition to an atavistic and essentially backwards Arab “other.” Ze'ev Jabotinsky, a key founding figure within political Zionism, ... «+972 Magazine, Jul 15»
5
Password to an identity
Is this atavistic recoil being engineered and encouraged systematically, by rabid clerics on both sides? Is there a mutually self-protecting ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Jul 15»
6
What about those cultures Roberts cites in his dissent on gay …
... presumably that's why Roberts referenced them — as the stereotype of an atavistic people, whether it's fair or not. (It's not, but let's move on.) ... «Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel, Jul 15»
7
Things fall apart: the beautiful Marxist bomb that's hit south London
The atavistic thrill of destruction, as a retort to impotence, is all about us. Every child knows its allure, and that destruction can be a kind of ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
8
Why Isn't Russia Part of Europe? (Op-Ed)
They sometimes follow that statement with the atavistic idea that Russia is a country to both scorn and fear. However justified or debatable ... «The Moscow Times, Jul 15»
9
Well off or not, skills are key
Atavistic attitudes about character building may not provide the answer – but encouraging youngsters to gain the skills to secure new routes ... «The Northern Echo, Jul 15»
10
The True Face of Traditional Thinking II
... sparks in their continuum, will finally experience some atavistic serendipity that we, like themselves once existed. And thus must be honored, ... «GhanaWeb, Jul 15»

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