Troglodyte
noun
A person who lived in a cave in the past.
Early troglodytes made tools from stone to help them survive.
noun
A person who is deliberately ignorant or old-fashioned.
My uncle refuses to use a smartphone, he's such a troglodyte.
Often appears as...
- be a troglodyte
- call someone a troglodyte
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
An animal that lives underground.
The olm, a kind of blind salamander, is a troglodyte.
Often appears as...
- troglodyte animal
- troglodyte species
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A person who lived in a cave in the past.
Early troglodytes made tools from stone to help them survive.
noun
A person who is deliberately ignorant or old-fashioned.
My uncle refuses to use a smartphone, he's such a troglodyte.
Often appears as...
- be a troglodyte
- call someone a troglodyte
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
An animal that lives underground.
The olm, a kind of blind salamander, is a troglodyte.
Often appears as...
- troglodyte animal
- troglodyte species
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Historical humans
Troglodyte refers to ancient humans, not to contemporary people who prefer a hermit lifestyle.
Ancient troglodytes developed early forms of art in their cave dwellings.
Pro Tip 2/2Archaic usage
The term is historical and should be used primarily in a historical or anthropological context.
The study of troglodytes gives insight into human prehistory.
Pro Tip 1/2Historical humans
Troglodyte refers to ancient humans, not to contemporary people who prefer a hermit lifestyle.
Ancient troglodytes developed early forms of art in their cave dwellings.
Pro Tip 2/2Archaic usage
The term is historical and should be used primarily in a historical or anthropological context.
The study of troglodytes gives insight into human prehistory.
Pro Tip 1/2Historical humans
Troglodyte refers to ancient humans, not to contemporary people who prefer a hermit lifestyle.
Ancient troglodytes developed early forms of art in their cave dwellings.
Pro Tip 2/2Archaic usage
The term is historical and should be used primarily in a historical or anthropological context.
The study of troglodytes gives insight into human prehistory.
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Can a divided America...
or each moral community is a matrix, a consensual hallucination. And so if you're within the blue matrix, everything's completely compelling that the other side -- they're troglodytes, they're racists, they're the worst people in the world, and you have all the facts to back that up. But somebody in the next house from yours is living in a different moral matrix.
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relative pan troglodytes the name we give him means cave dweller he doesn't he lives in rainforests in Savannah's it's just that we're always thinking of this guy is lagging behind us evolutionarily or somehow uncannily creeping up on us and in some cases he
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Can a divided America...
or each moral community is a matrix, a consensual hallucination. And so if you're within the blue matrix, everything's completely compelling that the other side -- they're troglodytes, they're racists, they're the worst people in the world, and you have all the facts to back that up. But somebody in the next house from yours is living in a different moral matrix.
Video examples
Reinventing the...
relative pan troglodytes the name we give him means cave dweller he doesn't he lives in rainforests in Savannah's it's just that we're always thinking of this guy is lagging behind us evolutionarily or somehow uncannily creeping up on us and in some cases he
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Quote examples
Peter T. King
American Politician
The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more and more, we're finding the American people on one side, the ACLU and the troglodytes from the New York Times on the other, where they belong.
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John Burnside
Scottish Writer
The son of a Fife mining town sledder of coal-bings, bottle-forager, and picture-house troglodyte, I was decidedly urban and knew little about native fauna, other than the handful of birds I saw on trips to the beach or Sunday walks.
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David Harsanyi
American Journalist
Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.
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Michael Eisner
American Businessman
There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.
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Jack Schwartz
Scientist
Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.
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Joanne Kelly
Canadian Actress
I'm a troglodyte. I think that's the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.
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Jair Bolsonaro
Brazilian Politician
I am not a troglodyte.
Quote examples
Peter T. King
American Politician
The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more and more, we're finding the American people on one side, the ACLU and the troglodytes from the New York Times on the other, where they belong.
Quote examples
John Burnside
Scottish Writer
The son of a Fife mining town sledder of coal-bings, bottle-forager, and picture-house troglodyte, I was decidedly urban and knew little about native fauna, other than the handful of birds I saw on trips to the beach or Sunday walks.
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David Harsanyi
American Journalist
Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.
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Michael Eisner
American Businessman
There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.
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Jack Schwartz
Scientist
Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.
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Joanne Kelly
Canadian Actress
I'm a troglodyte. I think that's the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.
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Jair Bolsonaro
Brazilian Politician
I am not a troglodyte.
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