cave dwellers

Underground shelter residents

Cave dwellers are people who live in caves, either as prehistoric humans did or as some communities still do in certain regions.

The term extends to anyone perceived as primitive, unsophisticated, or out of touch with modern life: Those cave dwellers in the IT department still use fax machines.

Opposites
dwelling location

cave dwellersprairie settlers

Grassland frontier colonizers

desert nomads · seafarers

technological/civilizational development

cave dwellerscosmopolitans

Worldly, well-traveled people

futurists · city dwellers · urbanites · suburbanites · metropolitans

relationship to built environment

cave dwellersarchitects

Building design professionals

urban planners · homeowners · suburbanites · builders

Family

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Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G