Are you sure you want to live like a caveman?
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Caveman
//ˈkeɪvˌmæn//
Synonyms for "caveman" (44 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (22)
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1 entriesTranslations
58 translations across 34 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- njeri i shpellave noun (early humans or related species)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- τρωγλοδύτης noun (early humans or related species)
Arabic
1 entries- رَجُل كَهْف noun (early humans or related species)
Armenian
2 entries- անձավաբնակ noun (early humans or related species)
- քարանձավաբնակ noun (early humans or related species)
Bulgarian
1 entries- пеще́рен чове́к noun (early humans or related species)
Catalan
2 entries- cavernícola noun (early humans or related species)
- home de les cavernes noun (a brutish or savage person)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 穴居人 noun (early humans or related species)
Czech
1 entries- jeskynní muž noun (early humans or related species)
Danish
2 entries- huleboer noun (early humans or related species)
- hulemenneske noun (early humans or related species)
Dutch
1 entries- holbewoner noun (early humans or related species)
Faroese
2 entries- hellisbúgvi noun (early humans or related species)
- holubúgvi noun (early humans or related species)
Finnish
1 entries- luolamies noun (early humans or related species)
French
1 entries- homme des cavernes noun (early humans or related species)
Galician
1 entries- cavernícola noun (early humans or related species)
German
1 entries- Höhlenmensch noun (early humans or related species)
Greek
2 entries- άνθρωπος των σπηλαίων noun (early humans or related species)
- σπηλαιάνθρωπος noun (early humans or related species)
Hebrew
2 entries- אָדָם קַדְמוֹן noun (early humans or related species)
- איש מערות noun (early humans or related species)
Icelandic
1 entries- hellisbúi noun (early humans or related species)
Italian
2 entries- cavernicolo noun (early humans or related species)
- troglodita noun (early humans or related species)
Japanese
1 entries- 穴居人 noun (early humans or related species)
Korean
1 entries- 동굴 거주인 noun (early humans or related species)
Latvian
2 entries- alu cilvēks noun (early humans or related species)
- troglodīts noun (early humans or related species)
Lithuanian
1 entries- urvinis žmogus noun (early humans or related species)
Macedonian
1 entries- пештерски човек noun (early humans or related species)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- hulemenneske noun (early humans or related species)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- holemenneske noun (early humans or related species)
Polish
4 entries- jaskiniowczyni noun (early humans or related species)
- jaskiniowczyni noun (a brutish or savage person)
- jaskiniowiec noun (early humans or related species)
- jaskiniowiec noun (a brutish or savage person)
Portuguese
4 entries- cavernícola noun (early humans or related species)
- homem das cavernas noun (early humans or related species)
- homem das cavernas noun (a brutish or savage person)
- homem das cavernas noun (a man with old fashioned or backward opinions, particularly with regard to women)
Russian
2 entries- пеще́рный челове́к noun (early humans or related species)
- троглоди́т noun (early humans or related species)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- pećinar noun (early humans or related species)
- pećinarka noun (early humans or related species)
- пећинар noun (early humans or related species)
- пећинарка noun (early humans or related species)
Spanish
4 entries- cavernario noun (early humans or related species)
- cavernícola noun (early humans or related species)
- hombre de las cavernas noun (early humans or related species)
- hombre de las cavernas noun (a brutish or savage person)
Swedish
1 entries- grottmänniska noun (early humans or related species)
Turkish
1 entries- mağara adamı noun (early humans or related species)
Welsh
1 entries- ogofwr noun (early humans or related species)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Sami looked like a caveman.
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That phrase is absolutely untranslatable into Toki Pona. A caveman would have no idea what it means.
Source: tatoeba (10099100)
I wonder when a caveman said something like this.
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