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
example
The dog grimaced harshly, a cringe that did not suggest 'primitive' fear as much as painful recollection.
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.
Recent demonstration of the ability of 'primitive' cells to mobilize and home to the infarcted heart have raised the possibility that undifferentiated cells may translocate from the recipient to the graft, contributing to ventricular remodeling.
Those struggles were of an extremely 'primitive' character, involving the destruction of machinery by workers.
As people banded together to constitute 'primitive' societies thousands of years ago, the first major form of organization to emerge was the tribe.
Despite the demand for knowledge, created by the rise of the universities, the technology to further motivate this process was still in a 'primitive' stage.
There's a scarlet dining-room, with distressed metal walls, a Chinese emperor's daybed for lounging about on, and a fabulous collection of 'primitive' art and antiques.
The idea of marriage is almost as old as the hills and was performed even in the most 'primitive' of human societies and cultures.
The platypus is considered a 'primitive' mammal, yet its bill appears to be highly advanced.
Matisse was not one to rest on his laurels, and he continued studying various styles including 'primitive' art, and the work of painters in other disciplines.
The factors that produced social bandits and other 'primitive' rebels in the past are very much part of the present-day world.
As a filmmaker, Sean Penn is attracted to the hinterland, where obsessions feed off 'primitive' fear.
I build with the most 'primitive' materials - with the triad, with one specific tonality.
Symbols of science, art and magic can be found in 'primitive' cave paintings in France.
At the same time, he was a self-taught, strongly independent painter who considered himself a 'primitive' .
Ricoeur argues that this 'primitive' desire for order, at least in its more developed forms, takes precedence over the desire for retribution.
These characteristics of B. bahloi are expected to be found in the ancestor of B. attenuatus, since they represent a more 'primitive' evolutionary stage.
What such views have in common is the conviction that the notion of something's persisting through time is ultimately 'primitive' and irreducible.
Also, the sights are usually quite 'primitive' by today's standards.
Certainly, other bird-like fossils will be found - either earlier or more 'primitive' .
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.
She discovered that I didn't revert to ballet steps, but with 'primitive' glee made wild, exuberant jumps when we danced to Offenbach's Gaite Parisienne.
In some ways, monotremes are very 'primitive' for mammals because, like reptiles and birds, they lay eggs rather than having live birth.
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' .
If that were the case then no civil law could apply and all men preserved their 'primitive' rights to secure themselves at all costs from harm.
Hence it is certain that still more 'primitive' life forms must have preceded the prokaryotes.
For the first time in so much time, she tasted the authentic almost 'primitive' happiness.
Tick those triangles that are primitive and out a cross by those which are multiples (of a 'primitive' triangle).
Proponents of the multiregional theory consider Neanderthals as an earlier 'primitive' stage in the development of modern Europeans.
The success of the barometer led to the development of 'primitive' air pumps.
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