Thesaurus / vestigial
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synonyms for vestigial
- inherent
- lurking
- smoldering
- suppressed
- underlying
- unrealized
- veiled
- abeyant
- between the lines
- concealed
- contained
- covert
- idle
- immature
- implied
- in abeyance
- inactive
- inert
- inferential
- inferred
- inoperative
- intrinsic
- invisible
- involved
- passive
- possible
- potential
- quiescent
- rudimentary
- secret
- sleeping
- suspended
- tacit
- torpid
- underdeveloped
- undeveloped
- unexposed
- unexpressed
- unripe
- unseen
- naive
- rudimentary
- simple
- underdeveloped
- undeveloped
- unsophisticated
- animal
- barbarian
- natural
- raw
- rough
- savage
- wild
- atavistic
- austere
- barbarous
- brutish
- childlike
- fierce
- ignorant
- nonliterate
- preliterate
- rude
- uncivilized
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- undomesticated
- unlearned
- unrefined
- untamed
- untaught
- untrained
- untutored
- elemental
- elementary
- embryonic
- primitive
- simple
- abecedarian
- basal
- beginning
- early
- immature
- initial
- introductory
- larval
- nuts-and-bolts
- primary
- simplest
- uncompleted
- undeveloped
- developed
- experienced
- mature
- sophisticated
- calm
- civilized
- kind
- mild
- moderate
- nice
- polite
- refined
- tame
- cultured
- current
- modern
- new
- present
- complex
- complicated
- difficult
- intricate
- sophisticated
- additional
- advanced
- derivative
- developed
- extra
- nonessential
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How to use vestigial in a sentence
Displeasing will probably always stir up some vestigial guilt.
CAROLYN HAX: LETTING OTHERS KNOW YOU’RE THE GOOD SAMARITAN, NOT THE GATEKEEPERCAROLYN HAXAPRIL 11, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIt’s always been the evening’s unofficial highest honor, but only in a vestigial sense since the dawn of the iPod — and that’s if you ever considered it an honor in the first place.
ALBUM OF THE YEAR IS THE GRAMMY THAT NOBODY DESERVES TO WINCHRIS RICHARDSMARCH 12, 2021WASHINGTON POSTOld people and their obsession with secrecy, vestigial limb of a world where secrets still existed.
DARK SPACES ON THE MAPKATIE MCLEANDECEMBER 18, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThere will be vestigial tailbones and dangling dewclaws for some time to come, but the point is to set our sights for our best selves and not our worst.
DAWN OF THE HELIOCENE - ISSUE 90: SOMETHING GREENSUMMER PRAETORIUSSEPTEMBER 16, 2020NAUTILUSIt is safe to suppose that our needs are like those of the race and that in us nothing is vestigial that is active in others.
THE KEMPTON-WACE LETTERSJACK LONDONOr, on the other hand, may not such faculty be regarded not as vestigial, but as rudimentary?
OCCULTISM AND COMMON-SENSEBECKLES WILLSONWhatever lightness or joy survived was the meaningless vestigial twitching of an obsolete organ.
THE SYNDICC.M. KORNBLUTHWe now call these toes "vestigial," and know the pig's ancestors used them, walking on four toes and not on two, as at present.
THE MEANING OF EVOLUTIONSAMUEL CHRISTIAN SCHMUCKERSimilar vestigial teeth, 5-40 in number, sometimes occur in goosebeaked whales (p. 70).
WHALES, DOLPHINS, AND PORPOISES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTICSTEPHEN LEATHERWOODThe posterior limb is, as a rule, pentedactylate, but in nearly every case the pollex is vestigial or absent.
THE VERTEBRATE SKELETONSIDNEY H. REYNOLDSWORDS RELATED TO VESTIGIAL
- abeyant
- between the lines
- concealed
- contained
- covert
- idle
- immature
- implied
- in abeyance
- inactive
- inert
- inferential
- inferred
- inherent
- inoperative
- intrinsic
- invisible
- involved
- lurking
- passive
- possible
- potential
- quiescent
- rudimentary
- secret
- sleeping
- smoldering
- suppressed
- suspended
- tacit
- torpid
- underdeveloped
- underlying
- undeveloped
- unexposed
- unexpressed
- unrealized
- unripe
- unseen
- veiled
- vestigial
- animal
- atavistic
- austere
- barbarian
- barbarous
- brutish
- childlike
- fierce
- ignorant
- naive
- natural
- nonliterate
- preliterate
- raw
- rough
- rude
- rudimentary
- savage
- simple
- uncivilized
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- underdeveloped
- undeveloped
- undomesticated
- unlearned
- unrefined
- unsophisticated
- untamed
- untaught
- untrained
- untutored
- vestigial
- wild
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