primitive 音标拼音: [pr'ɪmətɪv] [pr'ɪmɪtɪv]
n . 原始人,早期艺术家
a . 原始的,上古的,旧式的
原始人,早期艺术家原始的,上古的,旧式的
primitive 原指令;基元;资料元素;图元
primitive 原始 原素
primitive adj 1 :
belonging to an early stage of technical development ;
characterized by simplicity and (
often )
crudeness ; "
the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man "; "
primitive movies of the 1890s "; "
primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains " [
synonym : {
crude },
{
primitive }, {
rude }]
2 :
little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type ; "
archaic forms of life "; "
primitive mammals "; "
the okapi is a short -
necked primitive cousin of the giraffe "
[
synonym : {
archaic }, {
primitive }]
3 :
used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies ;
"
primitive societies "
4 :
of or created by one without formal training ;
simple or naive in style ; "
primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking " [
synonym : {
primitive }, {
naive }]
n 1 :
a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization [
synonym : {
primitive }, {
primitive person }]
2 :
a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived 3 :
a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms ;
"`
pick '
is the primitive from which `
picket '
is derived "
Primitive \
Prim "
i *
tive \,
a . [
L .
primitivus ,
fr .
primus the first :
cf .
F .
primitif .
See {
Prime },
a .]
1 .
Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin ,
or to early times ;
original ;
primordial ;
primeval ;
first ;
as ,
primitive innocence ;
the primitive church . "
Our primitive great sire ." --
Milton .
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2 .
Of or pertaining to a former time ;
old -
fashioned ;
characterized by simplicity ;
as ,
a primitive style of dress .
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3 .
Original ;
primary ;
radical ;
not derived ;
as ,
primitive verb in grammar .
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{
Primitive axes of coordinate } (
Geom .),
that system of axes to which the points of a magnitude are first referred ,
with reference to a second set or system ,
to which they are afterward referred .
{
Primitive chord } (
Mus .),
that chord ,
the lowest note of which is of the same literal denomination as the fundamental base of the harmony ; --
opposed to derivative .
--
Moore (
Encyc .
of Music ).
{
Primitive circle } (
Spherical Projection ),
the circle cut from the sphere to be projected ,
by the primitive plane .
{
Primitive colors } (
Paint .),
primary colors .
See under {
Color }.
{
Primitive Fathers } (
Eccl .),
the acknowledged Christian writers who flourished before the Council of Nice ,
A .
D .
325 . --
Shipley .
{
Primitive groove } (
Anat .),
a depression or groove in the epiblast of the primitive streak .
It is not connected with the medullary groove ,
which appears later and in front of it .
{
Primitive plane } (
Spherical Projection ),
the plane upon which the projections are made ,
generally coinciding with some principal circle of the sphere ,
as the equator or a meridian .
{
Primitive rocks } (
Geol .),
primary rocks .
See under {
Primary }.
{
Primitive sheath }. (
Anat .)
See {
Neurilemma }.
{
Primitive streak }
or {
Primitive trace } (
Anat .),
an opaque and thickened band where the mesoblast first appears in the vertebrate blastoderm .
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Syn :
First ;
original ;
radical ;
pristine ;
ancient ;
primeval ;
antiquated ;
old -
fashioned .
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Primitive \
Prim "
i *
tive \,
n .
An original or primary word ;
a word not derived from another ;
--
opposed to derivative .
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188 Moby Thesaurus words for "
primitive ":
Bronze Age man ,
Gothic ,
Hominidae ,
Iron Age man ,
Neanderthal ,
Stone Age man ,
ab ovo ,
abecedarian ,
aboriginal ,
aborigine ,
ancestral ,
ancient ,
animal ,
antediluvian ,
antenatal ,
antepatriarchal ,
anthropoid ,
ape -
man ,
archaic ,
atavistic ,
autochthon ,
autochthonous ,
barbarian ,
barbaric ,
barbarous ,
basal ,
basic ,
basilar ,
beginning ,
bestial ,
brutal ,
brutish ,
budding ,
bushman ,
cave dweller ,
caveman ,
central ,
childlike ,
coarse ,
cognate ,
constituent ,
constitutive ,
creative ,
crucial ,
crude ,
derivation ,
derivative ,
doublet ,
earliest ,
earliest inhabitant ,
early ,
elemental ,
elementary ,
embryonic ,
endemic ,
eponym ,
erstwhile ,
essential ,
etymon ,
fetal ,
first ,
first comer ,
fore ,
formative ,
former ,
fossil man ,
foundational ,
fundamental ,
generative ,
genetic ,
germinal ,
gestatory ,
gut ,
homebred ,
homegrown ,
hominid ,
humanoid ,
ill -
bred ,
immemorial ,
impolite ,
in embryo ,
in its infancy ,
in ovo ,
in the bud ,
inaugural ,
inceptive ,
inchoate ,
inchoative ,
incipient ,
incunabular ,
indigene ,
indigenous ,
infant ,
infantile ,
initial ,
initiative ,
initiatory ,
introductory ,
inventive ,
late ,
local ,
local yokel ,
man of old ,
material ,
missing link ,
naive ,
nascent ,
natal ,
native ,
native -
born ,
noncivilized ,
of the essence ,
old ,
olden ,
once ,
onetime ,
original ,
outlandish ,
parturient ,
past ,
patriarchal ,
persistent ,
postnatal ,
preadamite ,
preglacial ,
pregnant ,
prehistoric ,
prehistoric man ,
prehuman ,
prenatal ,
previous ,
primal ,
primary ,
primate ,
prime ,
primeval ,
primitive settler ,
primogenial ,
primoprimitive ,
primordial ,
prior ,
pristine ,
procreative ,
protogenic ,
protohistoric ,
protohuman ,
quondam ,
radical ,
raw ,
recent ,
root ,
rough ,
rough -
and -
ready ,
rude ,
rudimental ,
rudimentary ,
savage ,
seminal ,
simple ,
simplistic ,
sometime ,
substantial ,
substantive ,
then ,
troglodyte ,
troglodytic ,
uncivil ,
uncivilized ,
uncombed ,
uncouth ,
uncultivated ,
uncultured ,
underived ,
underlying ,
undeveloped ,
unkempt ,
unlicked ,
unpolished ,
unrefined ,
unschooled ,
unsophisticated ,
untamed ,
untaught ,
untrained ,
untutored ,
ur ,
vernacular ,
wild
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PRIMITIVE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster How to use primitive in a sentence not derived : original, primary; assumed as a basis; especially : axiomatic; of or relating to the earliest age or period : primeval… See the full definition