American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition - n. An extinct human species (Homo neanderthalensis) or
subspecies (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) living during the
late Pleistocene Epoch throughout most of Europe and parts of
Asia and northern Africa and associated with Middle Paleolithic
tools. - n. An individual belonging to this species or
subspecies. - n. Slang A crude, boorish, or slow-witted person.
- adj. Of, having to do with, or resembling Neanderthals. - adj.
Slang Crude, boorish, or slow-witted. - adj. Of or pertaining to
Homines neanderthalenses. - adj. Old-fashioned, opposed to
change (in allusion to Homo neanderthalensis). - adj. Of or
pertaining to the Neander Valley in Germany. - n. A specimen of
the now extinct species Homo neanderthalensis. - n. pejorative A
primitive person. GNU Webster's 1913 - adj. (Anthropol.) Of,
pertaining to, or named from, the Neanderthal, a valley in the
Rhine Province, in which were found parts of a skeleton of an
early type of man. The skul