What does "adamic" mean?

Of, relating to, or resembling the Biblical character Adam.

What is a synonym for "adamic"?

Common synonyms include: adamical, adamical, adamite, adamite, animal, animalistic.

Adamic

//əˈdæmɪk// adj, name

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Definitions

Adjective

1
Of, relating to, or resembling the Biblical character Adam. not-comparable
"The story of the man who was bathing at the time, and ran out in Adamic costume, has been told too often, and for a fictional individual he has become altogether too notorious; […]"

Proper Noun

1
The language believed to have been spoken by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in the biblical account of creation; considered by some traditions as the original or divine language from which all others descended. Judaism

Synonyms

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adamical adamical adamite adamite animal animalistic

Example

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"I have to some extent studied all of these utopias about creating a perfect language or from some original Adamic language, to those languages that are called universal, such as Esperanto, Volapük and others that aim not to be perfect languages but to be auxiliary languages."

Etymology

From Adam + -ic, modelled on Latin adamicus.

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