primitive
ആദിമമായ
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
ആദിമമായ
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The main aim of the fair is to resuscitate 'primitive' art forms and allow the artists to interact directly with their buyers.
The factors that produced social bandits and other 'primitive' rebels in the past are very much part of the present-day world.
They are claimed to be the most 'primitive' objects in the solar system, and the most likely to have organic (carbon-containing) molecules.
In the folk tales of 'primitive' societies ‘talking animals’ have occupied a highly ambiguous but a definite fantasy space.
As a filmmaker, Sean Penn is attracted to the hinterland, where obsessions feed off 'primitive' fear.
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.
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?
Logic and reason are overwhelmed by adrenaline and a 'primitive' desire to protect your own.
It may be, in the end, that we must simply accept the notion of causality as being 'primitive' and irreducible, like the notions of identity and existence.
Hands evolved to lift, heft, and hurl stones (such hard, straight, 'primitive' words those three, clearly made for use with stones).
Humans who lived in the past and did not have modern anatomy are often referred to as archaic or 'primitive' .
To the colonialist nineteenth society, 'primitive' peoples were regarded not as Good Savages but as inferior beings.
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.
Lacking either camera or scales I experienced a brief temptation to take the fish home with me - more as proof to my wife and children that I could actually catch a bass, than through a 'primitive' desire to feed them.
And yet any sort of ignorance of first or 'primitive' names involves an ignorance of secondary words; for they can only be explained by the primary.
When he glanced back, Cestmir was advancing, an unstoppable 'primitive' rage in his eyes.
Internet organization is still rather 'primitive' , but search engines are looking for ways to minimize the effectiveness of these link exchanges.
The path was in many places a 'primitive' stairway, or crude stepladder, at first through a jungle, and later up a very steep, grass-covered slope.
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.
Tick those triangles that are primitive and out a cross by those which are multiples (of a 'primitive' triangle).
Any Pythagorean triangle is either primitive or a multiple of a 'primitive' and this is shown in the table above.
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?
Is causal connection 'primitive' and irreducible?
Objects were seen as having utilitarian or ceremonial value, and were collected for ethnographic significance, or as souvenirs of the 'primitive' .
We can read with interest about 'primitive' pre-literate cultures and the amazing memories these people have for landforms or for stories and songs.
Certainly, other bird-like fossils will be found - either earlier or more 'primitive' .
In some ways, monotremes are very 'primitive' for mammals because, like reptiles and birds, they lay eggs rather than having live birth.
In pursuit of bigger game, I began searching for similar archaic behavior in humans, focusing on the apparently 'primitive' vocalization of laughter.
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.
And a mouse with only one button and no wheel seems somewhat 'primitive' to me now.
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