Synonyms of Neanderthals

Neanderthals

noun

plural of Neanderthal

1

as in hulks

a big clumsy often slow-witted person

they looked like a tribe of Neanderthals compared to the bridegroom's patrician-looking family

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hulks
• losers
• lumps
• idiots
• morons
• skunks
• skunk
• villains
• brutes
• geese
• turkeys
• clowns
• snakes
• mutts
• gawks
• lunatics
• nuts
• beasts
• stupids
• oafs
• lugs
• clodhoppers
• louts
• clods
• palookas
• lubbers
• heels
• creeps
• fools
• dummies
• anthropoids
• apes
• prats
• stocks
• dodos
• blunderers
• donkeys
• numbskulls
• naturals
• chumps
• imbeciles
• dullards
• dolts
• boneheads
• shlemiels
• lunkheads
• schlemiels
• dimwits
• blockheads
• numskulls
• rogues
• dopes
• ignoramuses
• knuckleheads
• birdbrains
• golems
• yahoos
• pinheads
• cretins
• hardheads
• ignorami
• deadheads
• stupes
• simpletons
• half-wits
• know-nothings
• chuckleheads
• chowderheads
• cads
• airheads
• simps
• nincompoops
• dunderheads
• madmen
• dumbheads
• loons
• lamebrains
• boors
• dumbbells
• ninnies
• clodpoles
• dunces
• meatheads
• hammerheads
• shlubs
• sapheads
• thickheads
• bubbleheads
• dips
• jackasses
• woodenheads
• ganders
• fatheads
• ninnyhammers
• loggerheads
• slouches
• goons
• galoots
• nitwits
• ratbags
• noodles
• schnooks
• cuddies
• boobies
• nimrods
• doofuses
• noddies
• curs
• dorks
• scatterbrains
• dummkopfs
• loonies
• louses
• schlubs
• lunks
• dum-dums
• tikes
• dim bulbs
• momes
• goofs
• churls
• stinkers
• clucks
• tykes
• dufuses
• clots
• rascals
• clunks
• nits
• clodpolls
• mugs
• dodoes
• scamps
• featherbrains
• yo-yos

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• brains
• intellectuals
• thinkers
• sages
• genii
• geniuses
• wizards
• brainiacs
• whizzes

2

as in barbarians

a man with crude manners and habits and outmoded attitudes

made the mistake of dining with some Neanderthal who repeatedly mistook his shirtsleeve for a napkin

Synonyms & Similar Words

• barbarians
• animals
• troglodytes
• cavemen
• brutes
• savages
• jerks
• primitives
• heathens
• heathen
• swine
• heels
• beasts
• creeps
• cretins
• curs
• boors
• cads
• louts
• louses
• churls