primitively
原始地,原始的,原始状态下,原始状态下的
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- : being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- : early in the history of the world or of humankind.
- : characteristic of early ages or of an early state of human development: primitive toolmaking.
- : Anthropology. of or relating to a preliterate or tribal people having cultural or physical similarities with their early ancestors.
- : unaffected or little affected by civilizing influences; uncivilized: primitive passions.
- : being in its earliest period; early: the primitive phase of the history of a town.
- : old-fashioned: primitive ideas and habits.
- : simple; unsophisticated: a primitive farm implement.
- : crude; unrefined: primitive living conditions.
- : Linguistics. of or relating to a form from which a word or other linguistic form is derived; not derivative; original or radical.of or relating to a protolanguage.of or relating to a linguistic prime.
- : primary, as distinguished from secondary.
- : Biology. rudimentary; primordial. noting species, varieties, etc., only slightly evolved from early antecedent types.of early formation and temporary, as a part that subsequently disappears.
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- : someone or something primitive.
- : Fine Arts. an artist of a preliterate culture.a naive or unschooled artist.an artist belonging to the early stage in the development of a style.a work of art by a primitive artist.
- : Mathematics. a geometric or algebraic form or expression from which another is derived.a function of which the derivative is a given function.
- : Linguistics. the form from which a given word or other linguistic form has been derived, by either morphological or historical processes, as take in undertake.
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Examples
The group’s chemical weapons program was never more than primitive and probably wasted its resources.
We eventually worked out that the micrometeorites are largely coming from primitive asteroids.
There are primitive versions of this in the Neuralink idea, with tiny wires going into your brain.
Early players in the space utilized primitive VR abilities to enable users to virtually try on makeup—an exciting prospect in theory but frequently disappointing and unrealistic in practice.
It makes our lungs—and the lungs of all mammals—look primitive.
By some direct and primitively human way her benighted mind had reached its determination.
Figure-drawing in early Christian art was for nearly a thousand years primitively barbarous, with occasional exceptions.
But in June something primitively English was thoroughly upset; old Jolyon's sense of justice had risen, as it were, from bed.
The Oviduct is in the Elasmobranchii, as in other vertebrates, primitively developed in both sexes.
It is hardly possible to help believing that the blastopore primitively represented a mouth.