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atavistic

adjective

Reveal meaning and examples

Resembling or reverting to an ancestral or primitive pattern.

The novelist described the crowd's fear as atavistic.

Dictionary practice example.

The sculpture gave modern machinery an atavistic, almost prehistoric appearance.