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primitive |
Grep of noun primitive primitive primitive person primitiveness Overview of noun primitive The noun primitive has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. primitive, primitive person -- (a person who belongs to early stage of civilization) 2. primitive -- (a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived) 3. primitive -- (a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived") Overview of adj primitive The adj primitive has 4 senses (first 3 from tagged texts) 1. (8) crude, primitive, rude -- (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") 2. (2) archaic, primitive -- (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") 3. (1) primitive -- ((anthropology; of societies) preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial; "primitive societies") 4. primitive -- ((fine arts) 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") Antonyms of adj primitive 4 senses of primitive Sense 1 crude, primitive, rude INDIRECT (VIA early) -> late, later Sense 2 archaic, primitive INDIRECT (VIA early) -> late, later Sense 3 primitive INDIRECT (VIA noncivilized) -> civilized, civilised Sense 4 primitive INDIRECT (VIA untrained) -> trained Similarity of adj primitive 4 senses of primitive Sense 1 crude, primitive, rude => early (vs. late) Sense 2 archaic, primitive => early (vs. late) Sense 3 primitive => noncivilized (vs. civilized), noncivilised Sense 4 primitive => untrained (vs. trained) Attributes of adj primitive Familiarity of adj primitive primitive used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count = 4) Grep of adj primitive primitive Overview of noun primitive The noun primitive has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. primitive, primitive person -- (a person who belongs to early stage of civilization) 2. primitive -- (a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived) 3. primitive -- (a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived") Overview of adj primitive The adj primitive has 4 senses (first 3 from tagged texts) 1. (8) crude, primitive, rude -- (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") 2. (2) archaic, primitive -- (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") 3. (1) primitive -- ((anthropology; of societies) preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial; "primitive societies") 4. primitive -- ((fine arts) 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")
primitive definition
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