primitive
ਆਰੰਭਿਕ
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.
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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.
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 platypus is considered a 'primitive' mammal, yet its bill appears to be highly advanced.
In the town itself the early 'primitive' buildings were gradually replaced by stone structures of the traditional German fachwerk style.
He argues that participation in 'primitive' warfare, in proportional terms, is often deadlier than participation in modern warfare.
The software, still in its early stages, is 'primitive' .
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 nineteenth century notions of the evolution of religion from 'primitive' animism to polytheism to monotheism have been falsified in tribe after tribe all over the world.
The evolutionarily 'primitive' aspect of emotion helps to explain its power to disrupt thinking.
In this brief note I wish to critically discuss Searle's claim that we-intentionality is biologically 'primitive' and irreducible.
Yet the system of thought he espoused was not 'primitive' , historical or fundamentalist, but rather thoroughly contemporary.
These two sources - Cézanne and 'primitive' art - were of great importance in the genesis of Cubism.
As people banded together to constitute 'primitive' societies thousands of years ago, the first major form of organization to emerge was the tribe.
In some ways, monotremes are very 'primitive' for mammals because, like reptiles and birds, they lay eggs rather than having live birth.
In other words, such demonstrations of ingenuity can be a powerful argument against the idea that ancient man was a less-evolved 'primitive' .
This causal claim is only merited once the theoretical system is in place, and so cannot be a 'primitive' element in any account of perception.
Certainly, other bird-like fossils will be found - either earlier or more 'primitive' .
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.
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.
Like some 'primitive' who thinks the camera steals his soul, Fowles seems to believe that his precious diary is a record of a sacred, special, inviolate self, and he must obey this self above all else.
When he glanced back, Cestmir was advancing, an unstoppable 'primitive' rage in his eyes.
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.
Iron is so important that 'primitive' societies are measured by the point at which they learn how to refine iron and enter the iron age!
In 'primitive' tribes, the names of people, places and things have talismanic powers.
Such relatively 'primitive' methods have now been overtaken by vastly enhanced possibilities for computational analysis.
This analysis is a first step in reconstructing the details of possible evolutionary relationships among 'primitive' cladid crinoids.
The foregoing analyses adopt a comparative notion of reasonableness as a basic or 'primitive' notion.
These tribes brought with them 'primitive' religious and cultural practices, such as the east Asian religion of shamanism.
Is causal connection 'primitive' and irreducible?
The 'primitive' magmas are roughly equally distributed between arcs built on oceanic and continental crust.
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