Synonym: ancient, barbarous, basic, beginning, elementary, fundamental, native, original, prehistoric, simple, uncivilized. Similar words: diminutive, punitive, positive, cognitive, sensitive, definitive, competitive, initiative. Meaning: ['prɪmɪtɪv] 
n. 1. a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization 2. a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived 3. a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms. adj. 1. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness 2. little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type 3. used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies 4. of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style.
n. 1. a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization 2. a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived 3. a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms. adj. 1. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness 2. little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type 3. used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies 4. of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style. 
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181 Durham are missing a chance to impress in an area where cricket remains primitive.
182 Town and country here are engaged in the age-old dialogue between advanced civilizations and primitive cultures.
183 Yet it is also possible to see the form as a stylized if rather primitive representation of the female deity.
184 These are a group of extremely primitive molluscs, which are found in any abundance only in Lower Palaeozoic rocks.
185 Until recently they were thought to be primitive primates but now science has put them firmly among the insectivores.
186 So, in this science fiction view of human evolution, primitive promiscuity was soon replaced by more orderly patterns of existence.
187 William Shaw was a Primitive Methodist circuit minister who was born in 1854 and died in 1931.
188 This would not seem strange to primitive people at all.
189 They pick the remotest jungles, the most primitive trains, the roughest country to cycle through. Sentencedict.com
190 Outside the places where wealth resided the world had also splintered into tribes and camps of the most primitive and bizarre form.
191 More than any others, so-called primitive peoples are receptive to nature and model their life and attitudes upon it.
192 In primitive societies men have the compensation of physical strength.
193 A traditional computer approaches a problem in a primitive way. 1.
194 It has been used in baking and brewing ever since primitive man became domesticated.
195 Symbolism is a primitive but effective way of communicating ideas.
196 These more primitive readings in sharar throw a particularly strong light on the occurrence of the institution narrative there.
197 In addition to impenetrability and extension, Leibnizian primitive force is characterized by inertia.
198 His choreography had an understated primitive elegance with bursts of joyous playfulness.
199 The Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1837 and then rebuilt on the same site in 1877.
200 Brown, fibrous bread is frequently perceived as a primitive food, unfit for human consumption.
201 In primitive thought and custom, one acquires the powers or characteristics of what one eats.
202 He revealed that the poet's connection with and knowledge of the primitive were only beginnings and not ends in themselves.
203 This shows the limiting effects of fixations to primitive levels of development, engaged in out of fear.
204 Carol Smith has pointed to the importance of this book for the primitive ritual elements in Eliot's drama.
205 The artist is being at once more primitive as well as more civilized, than his contemporaries.
206 The simplest two-instrument cell injection technique for both primitive streak stage and for early somite stage embryos will be described.
207 Memphis Archives has made these 24 recorded relics sound as good as primitive recordings possibly can.
208 The Boos' welcome maturity makes Sugar appear all the more primitive and pained.
209 Laughter, he says, serves some primitive social function, not yet nailed down.
210 A Primitive Methodist chapel was built at Thornholme in 1892.
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