throwback
Kelime Anlamı :

1. başarısızlık.
2. soya çekme.
3. çekme (akraba).
4. gerileme.
5. Eski atalara ait, türün diğer fertlerinde görülmeyen bazı özellikleri üzerinde taşıyan canlı.
6. daha eski bir safhaya geri atma.
7. ilerlemesini engellemek.
8. çekmek.
9. benzemek.
Eş Anlamlı Kelimeler :
anachronism, atavism, relapse
Tanımlar :
1. A reversion to a former type or ancestral characteristic.
2. see atavism.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. a reversion to an earlier stage of development
2. an organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form
3. atavism
4. a person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. the reappearance in an organism of characteristics of an earlier ancestral type; atavism.
2. an organisms having characteristics of an earlier ancestral type.
3. to revert to an ancestral type or character.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. anything which acts as a setback; specifically, a person who or thing which causes another to seem inferior by contrast.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. characteristic of an atavist
2. a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
3. an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism
4. throw back with a quick, light motion
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.