Need another word that means the same as “throwback”? Find 11 synonyms and 30 related words for “throwback” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Throwback” are: atavism, reversion, atavist, throw back, cast back, give back, bounce back, shine back, return, mirror, atavistic
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “throwback” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| atavism | A tendency to revert to something ancient or ancestral. The more civilized a society seems to be the more susceptible it is to its buried atavism. |
| atavist | An organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism. |
| bounce back | The quality of a substance that is able to rebound. |
| cast back | Object formed by a mold. |
| give back | The elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length. |
| mirror | A thing regarded as accurately representing something else. The company now has a mirror site in Taiwan. |
| return | A coming to or returning home. The return of spring. |
| reversion | A property to which someone has the right of reversion. A reversion to the two party system. |
| shine back | The quality of being bright and sending out rays of light. |
| throw back | A single chance or instance. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “throwback” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| atavistic | Characteristic of an atavist. Atavistic fears and instincts. |
| anachronism | Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred. The town is a throwback to medieval times an anachronism that has survived the passing years. |
| antithesis | Exact opposite. The antithesis between occult and rational mentalities. |
| atavism | A reappearance of an earlier characteristic. The more civilized a society seems to be the more susceptible it is to its buried atavism. |
| back | Cause to travel backward. He backed the horse at 33 1. |
| backward | At or to or toward the back or rear. The child put her jersey on backward. |
| backwards | In reverse of the usual direction or order. He took a step backwards. |
| conflicting | Incompatible or at variance; contradictory. Conflicting opinions. |
| contradictory | A contradictory proposition. Politically he exhibited contradictory behaviour. |
| contrary | A contrary proposition. A contrary wind. |
| converse | Carry on a conversation. She was withdrawn and preoccupied hardly able to converse with her mother. |
| inconsistency | The relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time. The inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behaviour. |
| inverse | A reciprocal quantity, mathematical expression, geometric figure, etc. which is the result of inversion. The age of such a universe is simply the inverse of the Hubble constant. |
| inversion | A transformation in which each point of a given figure is replaced by another point on the same straight line from a fixed point especially in such a way that the product of the distances of the two points from the centre of inversion is constant. The inversion of the normal domestic arrangement. |
| opposing | Facing; opposite. The opposing team. |
| opposite | Of leaves or shoots arising in pairs at the same level on opposite sides of the stem. We were opposites in temperament. |
| oxymoron | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true). |
| regression | Returning to a former state. Regression therapy. |
| regressive | Relating to or marked by psychological regression. Regressive aspects of recent local government reform. |
| relapse | (of a sick or injured person) deteriorate after a period of improvement. He relapsed. |
| retreat | Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity. A speedy retreat. |
| retrograde | Show retrograde motion. The glacier retrogrades. |
| retrogression | Passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form. A retrogression to 19th century attitudes. |
| retrospect | A survey or review of a past course of events or period of time. A full retrospect of the battle. |
| return | Return to a previous position in mathematics. The designer advocated a return to elegance. |
| reversal | Turning in an opposite direction or position. A reversal by the House of Lords of the Court of Appeal s decision. |
| reversion | A property to which someone has the right of reversion. A problem applicable to most variegated plants is that of reversion. |
| revolutionize | Change radically. This fabulous new theory will revolutionize the whole of science. |
| similar | A person or thing similar to another. The principle of treatment by similars. |
| turnabout | A decision to reverse an earlier decision. The move was a significant turnabout for the company. |
| turnaround | Turning in the opposite direction. Short hops with quick turnarounds and limited in flight service. |
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