primitive
primitif
definition
noun
The difficulty with this strategy was that it tended to provide ample room for the reproduction of stereotypical views regarding the barbarism of the primitive .
a person belonging to a preliterate, nonindustrial society or culture.
Theirs was no retrograde revival of past styles, but a reworking of Giotto and the Italian primitives through a modernist lens, specifically, the ironic classicism of Giorgio de Chirico.
a pre-Renaissance painter.
adjective
primitive mammals
relating to, denoting, or preserving the character of an early stage in the evolutionary or historical development of something.
the primitive material of the universe
not developed or derived from anything else.
translation of 'primitive'
adjective
primitif,
sederhana,
bersahaja
example
In 'primitive' tribes, the names of people, places and things have talismanic powers.
Could this be why he claimed to feel more at home in small, close, remote, 'primitive' societies, which he had never directly experienced, than in the society he inhabited?
Comets represent fragments of 'primitive' material from the outer Solar System in the same way that asteroids represent fragments of material from the inner Solar System.
Ethnic groups are not 'primitive' social organizations on an evolutionary march to civilization.
The foregoing analyses adopt a comparative notion of reasonableness as a basic or 'primitive' notion.
It is hard to imagine the 'primitive' conditions in those early days, when Rowntree's entire male staff numbered about 30.
As Toynbee observed, the Greek gods were thus made in the image of barbarian man - a 'primitive' who has been drawn into an encounter with a decadent civilisation and adopted the worst customs of both worlds.
She touched it gently with one finger, and what flashed through her wasn't pain but a shock of remembered ecstasy and a kind of 'primitive' greed.
At the time of his marriage in May of 1747 Hamilton had struggled for almost eight years to create a comfortable niche in a 'primitive' New World environment.
There are 'primitive' fears of loners that can be traced back to the days when everyone's energy and participation in rituals was necessary for the survival of a tribe.
Any Pythagorean triangle is either primitive or a multiple of a 'primitive' and this is shown in the table above.
Is causal connection 'primitive' and irreducible?
Mingled with these basic joys is another less 'primitive' feeling - that of a mission accomplished.
The egg-laying platypus and its cousin, the anteater, along with marsupials, make up the most 'primitive' group of living mammals.
And the preliminary measurements confirmed our suspicions that it is unusually rich in very, very old and 'primitive' material.
The main aim of the fair is to resuscitate 'primitive' art forms and allow the artists to interact directly with their buyers.
Abelard draws the conclusion that intentionality is a 'primitive' and irreducible feature of the mind, our acts of attending to things.
Physical handling of information was of necessity fairly 'primitive' in those days.
As a filmmaker, Sean Penn is attracted to the hinterland, where obsessions feed off 'primitive' fear.
But there can be no complex concepts without simple concepts, and it is to these latter 'primitive' representational structures that the thesis of this paper is meant to apply.
Does it not follow that if the evolution of amoeba to man is fact, then the development of 'primitive' man to civilized man must be fact also?
You must be prepared to leave the comfort of your home for a more 'primitive' place in the country many miles away at which you will live and work for two months.
In this brief note I wish to critically discuss Searle's claim that we-intentionality is biologically 'primitive' and irreducible.
These tribes brought with them 'primitive' religious and cultural practices, such as the east Asian religion of shamanism.
Mark's style is colorful and direct, with perspective that is often distorted or just simplified and figures who are rendered in a somewhat 'primitive' or naive manner.
The dog grimaced harshly, a cringe that did not suggest 'primitive' fear as much as painful recollection.
These two sources - Cézanne and 'primitive' art - were of great importance in the genesis of Cubism.
Carbonaceous chondrites are representative of the early material of the solar system, very 'primitive' material, so it's the closest we get to the stuff from which the solar system evolved.
For instance, bauxite or uranium have no value in a 'primitive' society where they cannot be utilised, but in an economy that produces aluminium or harnesses atomic power they become valuable resources.
Pakicetus is so far known only from its skull, but recent finds in Pakistan have produced other whale species that show very 'primitive' characters in both the skull and the rest of the skeleton.
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