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Definition of vestigial in English: vestigialadjective vɛˈstɪdʒ(ə)lvɛˈstɪdʒɪəlvɛˈstɪdʒ(i)əl 1Forming a very small remnant of something that was once greater or more noticeable. he felt a vestigial flicker of anger from last night Example sentencesExamples - The show is about an evil man with some vestigial traces of a conscience making his way in a world that has decided that feeling warm and fuzzy about yourself is more important than being a decent person.
- I think that Bob Carr is using you to score political points and any vestigial respect I felt for him has vanished in a puff of political posturing.
- But perhaps the more canny readers can indeed read backwards from these general remarks and dimly perceive the vestigial outline of the example which occasioned them.
- This year he was crushed, frankly, by Patrick Campion, who is not only much larger, but is entirely unencumbered by any vestigial table manners.
- This is a good thing for me, since my particular configuration of openness, cleverness and vestigial youth tends to make even my most loved ones a little wary of what I'm going to ask of them next.
- What is totally lacking is any vestigial sense of wishing to appease the people responsible for these outrages.
- This kind of argument, although true, overlooks the underlying cause of this kind of behavior - the primitive, vestigial, human survival instinct for tribalism.
- Is it vestigial imperialism on the part of sports journalists?
- Now whether it's a vestigial remnant of a day past is something that I question very much.
- Despite vestigial temperence tendencies, Camberwell even boasts a pub, the Palace, which used to be a regular meat market on Saturday nights, until a vegan action group forced its closure.
- This means that the essentially linguistic nature of these pursuits is adulterated; they are vestigial modes of the old ‘logic.’
- He knew that these devices were already vestigial.
- At the time, when something of which you had hope is thus disintegrating, there's not much to do except hang on to your vestigial self and hope not to be made too lastingly cynical by the process.
- Some form of proportional representation was the key to ensuring that Scottish Labour could never rule alone - its vestigial leftist tendencies would always be constrained by the need for coalition partners.
- By Monday night, though, in his 48-hour-warning speech, the references to international law and the United Nations had become vestigial.
- Plans for rebuilding a wrecked country are vestigial.
- His vision of modernity has been to preside over the House in a vestigial remnant of the Speaker's traditional costume, so that he resembles a schoolmaster summoned abruptly from the lunch table.
- All stories enwrapped in this literature have this attempt to find consolation in inevitability: the certainty of living with vestigial belief systems and adherences.
- Perhaps this attitude stemmed from some vestigial Old World notions of hierarchy, division of labor, or even the unseemliness of the music that they produced.
- Proportional representation is also vestigial here.
Synonyms remaining, surviving, residual, leftover, lingering persisting, abiding, lasting, enduring 2Biology
(of an organ or part of the body) degenerate, rudimentary, or atrophied, having become functionless in the course of evolution. the vestigial wings of kiwis are entirely hidden Example sentencesExamples - The point is not that vestigial organs have no function whatsoever.
- It used to be maintained that there were almost 200 vestigial organs in the human body.
- Nipples in men are similarly vestigial, Dr. Lloyd pointed out.
- The belief that wisdom teeth are vestigial organs that lack a function in the body (as was previously believed for the appendix), is less common today but still evident.
- These are vestigial toenails, signs that rattlers are related to lizards and shed their feet somewhere along the evolutionary ladder.
Synonyms rudimentary, undeveloped, incomplete, embryonic, immature non-functional technical abortive, primitive, obsolete
Derivatives adverb This parallelism exists, vestigially, in the tradition of animal parables. Example sentencesExamples - It is astonishing how often the word ‘initiation’ occurs in the literature these days, and how many myths are suspected of being vestigially connected with such rituals, on no better grounds than the presence of the separation motif.
- The salient features of H.W.'s life - premature stardom that drove to drink, a marriage turned living hell - are vestigially there, but not duly explored.
- The absurdity is heightened by the arrangement of works in the gallery, which is vestigially museological, featuring vitrines, shelves and careful spatial separations within the gallery's clean white walls.
- Canada, Australia and New Zealand, he explained, have a culture still vestigially fascinated by the book.
Definition of vestigial in US English: vestigialadjectivevɛˈstɪdʒ(i)əlveˈstij(ē)əl 1Forming a very small remnant of something that was once much larger or more noticeable. he felt a vestigial flicker of anger from last night Example sentencesExamples - This kind of argument, although true, overlooks the underlying cause of this kind of behavior - the primitive, vestigial, human survival instinct for tribalism.
- Proportional representation is also vestigial here.
- Is it vestigial imperialism on the part of sports journalists?
- This is a good thing for me, since my particular configuration of openness, cleverness and vestigial youth tends to make even my most loved ones a little wary of what I'm going to ask of them next.
- Perhaps this attitude stemmed from some vestigial Old World notions of hierarchy, division of labor, or even the unseemliness of the music that they produced.
- By Monday night, though, in his 48-hour-warning speech, the references to international law and the United Nations had become vestigial.
- Plans for rebuilding a wrecked country are vestigial.
- I think that Bob Carr is using you to score political points and any vestigial respect I felt for him has vanished in a puff of political posturing.
- The show is about an evil man with some vestigial traces of a conscience making his way in a world that has decided that feeling warm and fuzzy about yourself is more important than being a decent person.
- Despite vestigial temperence tendencies, Camberwell even boasts a pub, the Palace, which used to be a regular meat market on Saturday nights, until a vegan action group forced its closure.
- But perhaps the more canny readers can indeed read backwards from these general remarks and dimly perceive the vestigial outline of the example which occasioned them.
- This year he was crushed, frankly, by Patrick Campion, who is not only much larger, but is entirely unencumbered by any vestigial table manners.
- Now whether it's a vestigial remnant of a day past is something that I question very much.
- At the time, when something of which you had hope is thus disintegrating, there's not much to do except hang on to your vestigial self and hope not to be made too lastingly cynical by the process.
- Some form of proportional representation was the key to ensuring that Scottish Labour could never rule alone - its vestigial leftist tendencies would always be constrained by the need for coalition partners.
- What is totally lacking is any vestigial sense of wishing to appease the people responsible for these outrages.
- He knew that these devices were already vestigial.
- All stories enwrapped in this literature have this attempt to find consolation in inevitability: the certainty of living with vestigial belief systems and adherences.
- This means that the essentially linguistic nature of these pursuits is adulterated; they are vestigial modes of the old ‘logic.’
- His vision of modernity has been to preside over the House in a vestigial remnant of the Speaker's traditional costume, so that he resembles a schoolmaster summoned abruptly from the lunch table.
Synonyms remaining, surviving, residual, leftover, lingering - 1.1Biology (of an organ or part of the body) degenerate, rudimentary, or atrophied, having become functionless in the course of evolution.
the vestigial wings of kiwis are entirely hidden Example sentencesExamples - The belief that wisdom teeth are vestigial organs that lack a function in the body (as was previously believed for the appendix), is less common today but still evident.
- The point is not that vestigial organs have no function whatsoever.
- These are vestigial toenails, signs that rattlers are related to lizards and shed their feet somewhere along the evolutionary ladder.
- It used to be maintained that there were almost 200 vestigial organs in the human body.
- Nipples in men are similarly vestigial, Dr. Lloyd pointed out.
Synonyms rudimentary, undeveloped, incomplete, embryonic, immature
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