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Meaning of "troglodytic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TROGLODYTIC

troglodytic  [ˌtrɒɡləˈdɪtɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TROGLODYTIC

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

WHAT DOES TROGLODYTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Troglodyte

Troglodyte may refer to: ▪ A Cave dweller, one who lives in a cave. ▪ Troglodytae or Troglodyti, an ancient group of people from the African Red Sea coast ▪ Troglodites, a fictional tribe described in Montesquieu's Persian Letters, supposedly descending from the ancient Troglodytae ▪ Homo troglodytes, an invalid taxon coined by Carl Linnaeus to refer to a legendary creature ▪ Troglodyte, a race of humanoid monsters in the game Dungeons & DragonsTroglodyte, a 2009 film also known as Sea Beast ▪ "Troglodyte ", a funk song by the Jimmy Castor Bunch on their 1972 album It's Just Begun ▪ Caveman, a stock character based upon widespread concepts of the way in which early prehistoric humans may have looked and behaved ▪ Morlocks, a fictional troglodyte species created by H. G. Wells for his 1895 novel, The Time Machine The form Troglodytes may also refer to: ▪ Troglodytes, a...

Definition of troglodytic in the English dictionary

The definition of troglodytic in the dictionary is relating to a cave dweller, esp one of the prehistoric peoples thought to have lived in caves. Other definition of troglodytic is relating to someone who is unsophisticated and does not know very much about anything.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TROGLODYTIC


analytic
ˌænəˈlɪtɪk
antiparasitic
ˌæntɪˌpærəˈsɪtɪk
carditic
kɑːˈdɪtɪk
catalytic
ˌkætəˈlɪtɪk
critic
ˈkrɪtɪk
dendritic
dɛnˈdrɪtɪk
electrolytic
ɪˌlɛktrəʊˈlɪtɪk
endocarditic
ˌɛndəʊkɑːˈdɪtɪk
exopoditic
ɛkˌsɒpəˈdɪtɪk
hermaphroditic
hɜːˌmæfrəˈdɪtɪk
hydrolytic
ˌhaɪdrəˈlɪtɪk
jaditic
dʒeɪˈdɪtɪk
myelocytic
ˌmaɪələʊˈsɪtɪk
parasitic
ˌpærəˈsɪtɪk
parotiditic
pəˌrɒtɪˈdɪtɪk
pericarditic
ˌpɛrɪkɑːˈdɪtɪk
poditic
pəˈdɪtɪk
politic
ˈpɒlɪtɪk
Semitic
sɪˈmɪtɪk
thrombolytic
ˌθrɒmbəˈlɪtɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TROGLODYTIC

trochosphere
trochotron
trochus
trocken
troctolite
trod
trodden
trode
troffer
trog
trogged
trogging
troglodyte
troglodytical
troglodytism
trogon
troika
troilism
troilist
troilite

WORDS THAT END LIKE TROGLODYTIC

astrocytic
autocatalytic
cytolytic
endocytic
endophytic
epiphytic
fibrinolytic
glycolytic
granulocytic
hemolytic
lipolytic
lymphocytic
lytic
monocytic
oncolytic
paralytic
phagocytic
psychoanalytic
pyrolytic
saprophytic

Synonyms and antonyms of troglodytic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «troglodytic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TROGLODYTIC

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

Translator English - Chinese

穴居
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

troglodita
570 millions of speakers

English

troglodytic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

troglodytic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

troglodytic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

troglodytic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

troglodytic
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

troglodytic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

troglodytique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Troglodytic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Höhlen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

超保守的な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

troglodytic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Troglodytic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

troglodytic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

troglodytic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ट्रोग्लोडायटिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Troglodytic
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

trogloditico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

troglodytic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

troglodytic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

troglodytic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τρωγλοδυτικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

troglodytic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

troglodytic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

troglodytic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of troglodytic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TROGLODYTIC»

The term «troglodytic» is normally little used and occupies the 150.717 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TROGLODYTIC» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TROGLODYTIC»

Discover the use of troglodytic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to troglodytic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles
Adult Glacicavi- cola are typical of troglodytic beetles, possessing several morphological peculiarities, such as the loss of eyes, pigmentation, and wings. They also have long legs that enable them to search large areas for food. Many cave ...
Arthur V. Evans, C. L. Bellamy, 2000
2
Limestone in the Built Environment: Present-day Challenges ...
Cave dwellings were diffused in the Late Medieval Period, when troglodytic living 'became a principal mode of habitat and enjoyed a permanency that lasted well into the modern period' (Buhagiar 2005, p. 40). Jean Quintin d'Autin's The ...
Bernard J. Smith, 2010
3
Life and Society in Byzantine Cappadocia
For example, the vast troglodytic town of Malakopia (modern Derinkuyu) hosted a relatively sizable population of up to 20,000 people but was never a governmental or official church node, despite the wide range of private economic and ...
J. Eric Cooper, Michael J. Decker, 2012
4
The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
Before being cut the trees exude as it were by sweating a kind of oil called stacte. . . . There arc several kinds of myrrh: first, the Troglodytic, of the forest; second, the Minacan, including the aromatic; third, the Dianitic; fourth, the mixed kind; fifth,  ...
George Wynn Brereton Huntingford, 1980
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Fossil Salamanders of North America
These two vertebrae could, therefore, represent an unnamed neotenic, troglodytic (cave) species of Gyrinophilus. The closest living troglodytic species in the area is the West Virginia Spring Salamander (Gyrinophilus subterra- neus Besharse ...
J. Alan Holman, 2006
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The Nature of Diversity: An Evolutionary Voyage of Discovery
1994; Raff 1996; Li 1997), so Dollo's law should be applied with caution, preferably only after empirical data have been collected to support the hypothesis of irreversibility.8 All of the troglodytic species in the monophyletic group comprising ...
Daniel R. Brooks, Deborah A. McLennan, 2012
7
The Best Words: More Than 200 of the Most Excellent, Most ...
Something troglodytic, shall we say? or can it be the old story of Dr. Fell? or is it the mere radiance of a foul soul that thus transpires through, and transfigures, its clay continent? —Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and ...
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
8
Yeats and Joyce: Cyclical History and the Reprobate Tradition
That is to say, Dasenbrock uses Vico to bolster a traditional reading"6 of 'Cyclops' as an attack on 'troglodytic nationalists' and an affirmation of Bloom's - and therefore Joyce's - internationalist antipathy to such 'barbaric insularity'. No one can ...
Alistair Cormack, 2008
9
The Loire
is riddled with troglodytic dwellings. Most date from the 14th century, when lime quarries were dug beneath the falunian land to extract shell-marl, rich in carbonate of lime. From the burned marl, hydrated lime was extracted as a fertiliser or to ...
Nicola Williams, Virginie Boone, 2002
10
Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia
Owing to the antiquity of their isolation, the troglodytic and edaphoid paleoendemics represent veritable biogeographical indexes much more reliable than the expansive species; unlike the latter, they are fit to characterize biogeographical ...
‎1972

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TROGLODYTIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term troglodytic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Obama Says He Would Run A Third Time if it Weren't for That Pesky …
It's good to know you'll apparently be in the company of your greatest fan even in your most troglodytic moments of solitude. Let us start your sendoff the proper ... «The Libertarian Republic, Jul 15»
2
A tribute to Seán Boylan, what if Cantona never left Leeds and the …
“It's like any verbal dispute where fact and opinion are used interchangeably by troglodytic axe grinders who seem to get an erectile boost from the frustrated ... «The42, Jul 15»
3
The verdict on "women's sports" is in already!
It's like any verbal dispute where fact and opinion are used interchangeably by troglodytic axe grinders who seem to get an erectile boost from the frustrated ... «Socialist Worker Online, Jul 15»
4
Viengxay caves, Laos: where thousands hid from American bombs
Local guide Mr Somkhit led me through the subterranean chambers of each politburo member's troglodytic home. “More than 20,000 people lived here while two ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
5
Two Troglodytic Eyeless Pseudoscorpions found in Grand Canyon …
Two specially adapted pseudoscorpions have been reported in a cave on the northern side of the Grand Canyon. The creatures, which are not really scorpions, ... «ZME Science, Dec 14»
6
'The Newsroom' Season 3 Episode 5 Recap: “Oh Shenandoah”
The media commentary on The Newsroom has always been an odd mix of troglodytic and eerily prescient. On the one hand, the show is, by its very design, ... «Flavorwire, Dec 14»
7
Bill 10 gong show's bungled effort to pander to PC Party's worst …
If the gong show that erupted yesterday over the Alberta Progressive Conservative government's bungled effort to pander to its troglodytic social conservative ... «rabble.ca, Dec 14»
8
A great scientist's fall into crankdom: The case of DNA pioneer Jim …
At the other, it's the spectacle of Nobel-winning scientists turning out to be troglodytic cranks the moment they stray from their narrow specialties. lRelated On ... «Los Angeles Times, Dec 14»
9
Animal rights activist attacks university's deer skin exhibit as 'work of …
... called the scholar behind it, Tammy Renee Brackett, chair of the digital media and animation department at Alfred State College, a “troglodytic mouth-breather. «The College Fix, Oct 14»
10
The ancient celebration of San Lorenzo-a-Mare
An early 16th-century chalice previously used in the ancient troglodytic chapel in Fort St Angelo. Right: Interior of St Lawrence church, Vittoriosa, formerly the ... «Times of Malta, Aug 14»

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