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
hombre primitivo,
primitivo
adjective
rudimentario,
primitivo,
sencillo,
primario
example
Internet organization is still rather 'primitive' , but search engines are looking for ways to minimize the effectiveness of these link exchanges.
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.
His style has been loosely described as expressionistic, surrealistic, naive, and 'primitive' , but was also strongly influenced by the urban realism of John Sloan.
In this brief note I wish to critically discuss Searle's claim that we-intentionality is biologically 'primitive' and irreducible.
Objects were seen as having utilitarian or ceremonial value, and were collected for ethnographic significance, or as souvenirs of the 'primitive' .
In a series of articles, beginning in 1934, Péter developed various deep theorems about 'primitive' recursive functions, most of them with an explicit algorithmic content.
There was frost one morning not long ago, but when I reached out to touch it in 'primitive' awe it was gone.
The pleasure of digging derives from a 'primitive' instinct.
And a mouse with only one button and no wheel seems somewhat 'primitive' to me now.
This spiralling is very prevalent in 'primitive' art.
We can read with interest about 'primitive' pre-literate cultures and the amazing memories these people have for landforms or for stories and songs.
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.
As a social problem, this tendency is unmasked by the realist, who assists the native to develop beyond this stage of 'primitive' fetishism.
This land bridge allowed 'primitive' mammals to colonize South America from the North.
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.
They constitute the 'primitive' elements out of which the world is constituted.
The use of the 'primitive' Etruscan style suggests a time so ancient as to be inseparable from nature.
Yet the system of thought he espoused was not 'primitive' , historical or fundamentalist, but rather thoroughly contemporary.
Humans who lived in the past and did not have modern anatomy are often referred to as archaic or 'primitive' .
However, once again the incomplete nature of the fossil record causes problems and can result in more 'primitive' members of a taxon being preserved at a higher stratigraphical level than more advanced forms.
These characteristics of B. bahloi are expected to be found in the ancestor of B. attenuatus, since they represent a more 'primitive' evolutionary stage.
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.
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.
The tumor occurs near the coccyx, where the greatest concentration of 'primitive' cells exists for the longest period of time during development.
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.
It was painted from notes she made while traveling in the district, and is a summation of her landscape style and ideals which often ended in a form of 'primitive' cubism.
Air-breathing in fish is, in fact, a 'primitive' character of all osteichthyans.
In other words, such demonstrations of ingenuity can be a powerful argument against the idea that ancient man was a less-evolved 'primitive' .
In pursuit of bigger game, I began searching for similar archaic behavior in humans, focusing on the apparently 'primitive' vocalization of laughter.
This included vaulting, which was more durable than the more 'primitive' , earlier building methods.
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