caveman

Meanings

Plural: cavemen

Noun

• someone who lives in a cave
• An early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves.
• A person with backward, primitive behavior, opinions, or interests.
• A brutish person, one who behaves in a rough, uncivilized way.
• A person with backward, primitive behavior, opinions, or interests.
• Someone, especially a man, who has regressive, old-fashioned attitudes, particularly with regard to women; someone opposed to change or modernity.
• A person with backward, primitive behavior, opinions, or interests.

Synonyms

boor, cave dweller, cave man, hominid, hominin, knuckle dragger, lout, male chauvinist, Neanderthal, savage, thug, troglodyte