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Definition: Atavist |
AtavistNoun1. An organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: AtavistSynonym: throwback (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Atavist |
| English words defined with "atavist": atavistic ♦ throwback. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "atavist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | атавист. (various references) | |
Turkish | atacı. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "atavist": atavistic, atavistically, atavists. (additional references) | |
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"Atavist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alawist, atavis, atavise, atavista. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-s-t-t-v" | |
-2 letters: avast, vista, vitta. | |
-3 letters: aits, sati, stat, tats, tavs, tits, vasa, vast, vats, visa, vita. | |
-4 letters: aas, ais, ait, att, ava, its, sat, sit, tas, tat, tav, tis, tit, vas, vat, via, vis. | |
-5 letters: aa, ai, as, at, is, it, si, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-s-t-t-v" | |
+1 letter: atavists. | |
+2 letters: activates, aestivate, atavistic, cavitates. | |
+3 letters: activators, aestivated, aestivates, captivates, gravitates, lovastatin, starvation. | |
+4 letters: abstractive, activations, adventitias, aestivating, aestivation, assortative, bodhisattva, captivators, cavitations, deactivates, devastating, devastation, devastative, inactivates, lovastatins, reactivates, starvations, translative, vacationist, vaticinates. | |
+5 letters: adaptivities, aestivations, alternatives, antivitamins, boddhisattva, bodhisattvas, captivations, deactivators, devastations, gravitations, salvationist, substantival, vacationists, vasoactivity, vaticinators, visitatorial. | |
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