The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word REVERTS which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1959.
Displays atavism crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| REVERTS | 100 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Displays atavism
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- atavistic
- reversion
- reversionary
- conservative
- feedback
- legal
- neoteny
- reform
- regression
- relapse
- result
- reversal
Crossword Answer definitions
REVERTS noun- One who, or that which, reverts.
- One who reverts to that religion which he had adhered to before having converted to another
- (due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
- The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
- (now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- To cause to return to a former condition.
- (now rare) To return; to come back.
- To return to the possession of.
- To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
- To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
- To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
- To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- (in Muslim usage, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) To convert to Islam.
- (originally India, now also Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) To reply (to correspondence, for example).
- To treat (a series, such as y = a + bx + cx2 + ..., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
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