reptilian🔊

(zoology) Of or relating to the members of the class (class) (reptiles).

Reptilelike.

(figuratively) Unthinking, low, base, contemptible.

(figuratively) Cold-blooded, treacherous, unavoidably selfish and hostile.

A reptilian animal: a reptile.

(figuratively) A reptilian person, especially (racial slur) a Jew.

(science fiction) A reptilian alien, especially (capitalized) of a shapeshifting race alleged to secretly control the world.