troglodytic

English

Alternative forms

• trogloditic

Etymology

From Latin troglodyticus, Ancient Greek τρωγλοδυτικός (trōglodutikós, “of cave-/hole-dwellers”) from τρωγλοδύτης (trōglodútēs, “cave-/hole-dweller”) from τρώγλη (trṓglē, “hole”) + δύω (dúō, “enter, go into”).

Adjective

troglodytic (comparative more troglodytic, superlative most troglodytic)

1. Of or pertaining to troglodytes, or dwellers in caves.

   Synonym: troglodytish

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     Foremost of all, of course, were the sight of the fiery caves and the certainty that some troglodytic race inhabited them.