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primitively

/prim-i-tiv/US // ˈprɪm ɪ tɪv //UK // (ˈprɪmɪtɪv) //

原始地,原始的,原始状态下,原始状态下的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.