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primitive::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | primitive person |
| Type of | individual, soul, somebody, mortal, someone, person |
| Has types | caveman, feral man, wild man, troglodyte, homo heidelbergensis, indo-european, missing link, mound builder, piltdown hoax, piltdown man, savage, heidelberg man, ape-man, aryan, autochthon, barbarian, basket maker, cave dweller, cave man |
primitive::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | naive |
primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking.
primitive::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | archaic |
| Derivation | primitiveness |
primitive mammals.
the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe.
primitive::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | formula, expression |
primitive::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | word |
`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived.
primitive::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | primitiveness |
primitive societies.
Examples of primitive
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The city's connections to the outside world are primitive by European standards.
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For most Russians, medicinal leeches are not looked upon as exotic or primitive.
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The trail was blissfully primitive and looked as if it doesn't get much traffic.
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What Saint-Gaudens would make of MOS's techno-primitive folly is anyone's guess.
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Those also were the days of relatively primitive scouting of high school talent.
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Colonizers could then be sent with today's primitive rockets, and go live there.
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While the Hopper's guide looks primitive in the browser, it is immensely useful.
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Conodonts were primitive marine vertebrates that died out 200 million years ago.
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I think that there are certain primitive notions in us which are like originals.
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- A person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
- Crude: 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"
- A mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
- Archaic: 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"
- A word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"
- Used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies"
- Primitive is the second LP by the metal band Soulfly released in 2000 through Roadrunner Records. Primitive has sold over 226,569 copies.
- In computer science, primitive data type can refer to either of the following concepts: * a basic type is a data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block. Most languages allow more complicated composite types to be recursively constructed starting from basic types. ...
- The term geometric primitive in computer graphics and CAD systems is used in various senses, with common meaning of atomic geometric objects the system can handle (draw, store). Sometimes the subroutines that draw the corresponding objects are called "geometric primitives" as well. ...
