aboriginal

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of ABORIGINAL

a member of the first race to inhabit a region <for a long time the aboriginals were not even included in the censuses, as they were viewed as part of the region's fauna>

Synonyms aboriginal, autochthon, indigene (also indigen), native

Related Words primitive

Near Antonyms alien, foreigner

Antonyms nonnative

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