EGAVE

caveman

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun An early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves.
    The political cartoon showed the politician as a caveman, clubbing the budget depicted as a mammoth.
  2. noun A person with backward, primitive behavior, opinions, or interests. A brutish person, one who behaves in a rough, uncivilized way.
    The football squad was made up of cavemen who were responsible for trashing many a locker room.
  3. noun A brutish person, one who behaves in a rough, uncivilized way.
    The football squad was made up of cavemen who were responsible for trashing many a locker room.
  4. noun Someone, especially a man, who has regressive, old-fashioned attitudes, particularly with regard to women; someone opposed to change or modernity.
    Old Sven is a bit of a caveman; he figures giving women the right to vote was a bad idea.

Similar words

cave dweller troglodyte cave man cave caveman stage paleocave palaeocave protohuman apeman cro-magnon

Often followed by

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Word family

cavemen

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