English-Dutch translations for atavistic

• atavistisch
  namens de ALDE-Fractie. - (EN) Voorzitter, de mondelinge vraag waaruit dit debat is voortgekomen, riekt naar atavistische rancune van constitutionele aard. on behalf of the ALDE Group. - Mr President, the oral question that underlies this debate smacks to me of atavistic resentment of a constitutional nature.

Definition of atavistic

• 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

Related words

• atavism
• patavine
• Patavine
• atavistically
• atavic
• Batavian
• Batavia
• patavinity
• dataviz