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Define the word neandertal

"Neandertal" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

Neandertal
     adj 1: relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man;
            "Neanderthal skull" [syn: Neanderthal, Neanderthalian]
     2: ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or
        appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish
        manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband";
        "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" [syn: boorish,
         loutish, neanderthal, oafish, swinish]
     n : extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and
         western Asia [syn: Neandertal man, Neanderthal man, Neanderthal,
          Homo sapiens neanderthalensis]