Wondering how to use Atavistic in a sentence? Below are 7 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as throwback or regressive.
Atavistic in a sentence
Atavistic meaning
- Of the recurrence of a trait reappearing after an absence of one or more generations due to a chance recombination of genes.
- Of a throwback or exhibiting primitivism.
- Relating to earlier, more primitive behavior that returns after an absence.
Synonyms of Atavistic
Using Atavistic
- The main meaning on this page is: Of the recurrence of a trait reappearing after an absence of one or more generations due to a chance recombination of genes. | Of a throwback or exhibiting primitivism. | Relating to earlier, more primitive behavior that returns after an absence.
- Useful related words include: throwback, regressive.
Context around Atavistic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Atavistic
- In this selection, "atavistic" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, guilty, totally, become, american, pleasure and forms stand out and add context to how "atavistic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a totally atavistic fear and and anachronistic atavistic worlds within. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "atavistic" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with atavistic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Just brings out a totally atavistic fear. (7 words)
The definitions create a diverse space (hence library data and anachronistic/atavistic worlds), within limits. (15 words)
Humanity has progressively evolved an increasing reliance on intellectual faculties and a corresponding loss of intuitive or clairvoyant experiences, which have become atavistic. (23 words)
His toleration of genocide is unforgiveable; his atavistic American instinct to offer a military response to any challenge is more of the arrogant Cold-War-era stance that was so much a part of his earlier political life. (38 words)
It’s only logical that today’s crisis would tap an atavistic nerve—although our fear of evacuation has morphed into doomsday anxiety about opening the door for the Postmates delivery guy. (32 words)
Even as Kerala aspires to modern forms of commingled and cosmopolitan existence, internecine fights and ‘organizational factionalism’ have made the Muslim community seem to regress into atavistic forms of tribal affinities. (31 words)
Example sentences (7)
His toleration of genocide is unforgiveable; his atavistic American instinct to offer a military response to any challenge is more of the arrogant Cold-War-era stance that was so much a part of his earlier political life.
Somewhere someone is burning off and there is the guilty atavistic pleasure in the smell of burning leaves and wood from the nearby forest.
Even as Kerala aspires to modern forms of commingled and cosmopolitan existence, internecine fights and ‘organizational factionalism’ have made the Muslim community seem to regress into atavistic forms of tribal affinities.
It’s only logical that today’s crisis would tap an atavistic nerve—although our fear of evacuation has morphed into doomsday anxiety about opening the door for the Postmates delivery guy.
Just brings out a totally atavistic fear.
Humanity has progressively evolved an increasing reliance on intellectual faculties and a corresponding loss of intuitive or clairvoyant experiences, which have become atavistic.
The definitions create a diverse space (hence library data and anachronistic/atavistic worlds), within limits.