primitive
primitivo
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'
noun
palavra primitiva,
primitivo
adjective
simples,
rudimentar,
grosseiro,
primitivo,
antigo
example
In the town itself the early 'primitive' buildings were gradually replaced by stone structures of the traditional German fachwerk style.
Tick those triangles that are primitive and out a cross by those which are multiples (of a 'primitive' triangle).
There was frost one morning not long ago, but when I reached out to touch it in 'primitive' awe it was gone.
As a social problem, this tendency is unmasked by the realist, who assists the native to develop beyond this stage of 'primitive' fetishism.
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.
However, he was hailed as a great artist and visionary by Picasso, Magritte and Ernst, who admired Rousseau's 'primitive' style of painting and viewed him as being part of a force that was changing the face of art.
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.
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.
These basic entrepreneurial skills may be 'primitive' , but they enable individuals to earn enough money to support themselves and add to family incomes.
The software, still in its early stages, is 'primitive' .
Studies of 'primitive' societies show that humans are not inherently ‘good,’ but that goodness stems from prosperity.
Such relatively 'primitive' methods have now been overtaken by vastly enhanced possibilities for computational analysis.
Humans who lived in the past and did not have modern anatomy are often referred to as archaic or '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.
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.
The following are a few examples showing that addition, multiplication, and exponentiation are 'primitive' recursive.
Comets are composed of ice, gas, and dust - 'primitive' debris from the formation of the solar system about 4.5 billion years ago.
Hands evolved to lift, heft, and hurl stones (such hard, straight, 'primitive' words those three, clearly made for use with stones).
And the preliminary measurements confirmed our suspicions that it is unusually rich in very, very old and 'primitive' material.
On a short trip to London that fall, he pursued his study of 'primitive' art in the Egyptian, Assyrian, and African collections at the British Museum.
They are living in mud huts and everything is 'primitive' by our standards, but unbelievably clean.
Is causal connection 'primitive' and irreducible?
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' .
Some social theorists such as Marx viewed slavery as a necessary but 'primitive' stage in the evolution of human institutions despite it being inherently wasteful and inefficient.
As a filmmaker, Sean Penn is attracted to the hinterland, where obsessions feed off 'primitive' fear.
What such views have in common is the conviction that the notion of something's persisting through time is ultimately 'primitive' and irreducible.
We can read with interest about 'primitive' pre-literate cultures and the amazing memories these people have for landforms or for stories and songs.
For the first time in so much time, she tasted the authentic almost 'primitive' happiness.
Symbols of science, art and magic can be found in 'primitive' cave paintings in France.
It is hard to imagine the 'primitive' conditions in those early days, when Rowntree's entire male staff numbered about 30.
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