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What (who) is primitive - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Primitive (song); Primitive (disambiguation); Primitivism (disambiguation); Primitive (album)
primitive
1.
Primitive means belonging to a society in which people live in a very simple way, usually without industries or a writing system.
...studies of primitive societies.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
2.
Primitive means belonging to a very early period in the development of an animal or plant.
...primitive whales...
It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.
ADJ
3.
If you describe something as primitive, you mean that it is very simple in style or very old-fashioned.
It's using some rather primitive technology.
? sophisticated
ADJ
Primitive
·adj Original; primary; radical; not derived; as, primitive verb in grammar.
II. Primitive ·noun An original or primary word; a word not derived from another;
- opposed to derivative.
III. Primitive ·adj Of or pertaining to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity; as, a primitive style of dress.
IV. Primitive ·adj Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church.
primitive
¦ adjective
1. relating to or denoting the earliest times in history or stages in evolution or development.
of or denoting a preliterate, non-industrial society of simple organization.
Biology undeveloped; rudimentary.
2. offering an extremely basic level of comfort, convenience, or efficiency.
3. (of behaviour or emotion) instinctive and unreasoning.
4. of or denoting a deliberately simple and direct artistic style.
¦ noun
1. a person belonging to a primitive society.
2. a pre-Renaissance painter, or one employing a primitive style.
3. technical a word, expression, etc. from which others are derived.
Computing any of a set of basic geometric shapes generated in computer graphics.
Derivatives
primitively adverb
primitiveness noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. primitif, -ive, from L. primitivus 'first of its kind', from primus 'first'.
Examples of use of primitive
1. The Palestinians are not primitive people, yet under Israeli occupation they are leading miserable, primitive lives.
2. Officials describe the jail‘s conditions as primitive.
3. Cyanobacteria: One of the most primitive life forms 2 Cyanobacteria These coiled filaments are representatives of some of the most primitive life forms on Earth.
4. Both are games of subterfuge and raw, primitive passion.
5. And he determinedly instructed officials to blast away primitive furnaces.