primitive

原始的, 远古的, 古老的; 初期的, 最早的

简单的; 幼稚的; 自然的; 纯朴的

粗糙的; 未开化的

原来的, 基本的, 非派生的

【生】初生的

未经正式训练的, 自学的, 自学的艺术家所创造的

【地质】初期的

primitive advance

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primitive

原始的；远古的

Primitive men lived in caves.

Primitive man made tools from sharp stones and animal bones.

古老的；旧式的；简单的

The native of that region still live in primitive straw huts.

Small seashells were once used as a primitive kind of money.

primitive

原始的, 远古的, 粗糙的, 简单的

primitive

of or belonging to the first or beginning; original

characteristic of an early state, esp in being crude or uncivilized

a primitive dwelling

denoting or relating to a preliterate and nonindustrial social system

of, relating to, or resembling an early stage in the evolutionary development of a particular group of organisms.another word for primordial

showing the characteristics of primitive painters; untrained, childlike, or naive

pertaining to magmas that have experienced only small degrees of fractional crystallization or crystal contamination

of, relating to, or denoting rocks formed in or before the Palaeozoic era

denoting a word from which another word is derived, as for example hope, from which hopeless is derived

of, relating to, or associated with a minority group that breaks away from a sect, denomination, or Church in order to return to what is regarded as the original simplicity of the Gospels

a primitive person or thing

an artist whose work does not conform to traditional, academic, or avant-garde standards of Western painting, such as a painter from an African or Oceanic civilization.a painter of the pre-Renaissance era in European painting.a painter of any era whose work appears childlike or untrained.Also called (for senses 11a, 11c) naive

a work by such an artist

a word or concept from which another word or concept is derived

a curve, function, or other form from which another is derived

primitive

1. a person who belongs to early stage of civilization

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2. a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived

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3. a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"

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1. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"

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2. little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"

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3. used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies"

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4. of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style; "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking"

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