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trogloditic

trogloditic is the alternative spelling of troglodytic.

Meaning of troglodytic

Adjective

troglodytic (comparative more troglodytic, superlative most troglodytic)

  1. Of or pertaining to troglodytes, or dwellers in caves.
    • Foremost of all, of course, were the sight of the fiery caves and the certainty that some troglodytic race inhabited them.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    troglodytish
  2. Like or befitting a troglodyte; brutish, backwards, etc.
    • ‘There is something more, if I could find a name for it. God bless me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say? or can it be the old story of Dr. Fell? or is it the mere radiance of a foul soul that thus transpires through, and transfigures, its clay continent? The last, I...1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Search for Mr. Hyde”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 25–26

Questions about trogloditic

What is trogloditic the alternative spelling of?
Trogloditic is the alternative spelling of troglodytic.

Words near trogloditic in the dictionary

  1. troglobiotism
  2. troglobious
  3. troglobite
  4. troglobites
  5. troglobitic
  6. trogloditic
  7. troglodytal
  8. troglodyte
  9. troglodytes
  10. troglodytian
  11. troglodytic

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