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primitiveness

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

原始性,初始化,原始人,初始化程度

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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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as insimplicity

Examples

  • A lean-toOne of the simplest and most frequently constructed primitive shelters is the lean-to.

  • Although the people of the Paleolithic are often perceived as primitive and conservative in their goals, “I feel something very different from the evidence of human presence on these remote islands,” Kaifu says.

  • They were also catalysts to the first appearances of primitive life.

  • All of this went a long way toward helping scientists better understand Ryugu, a primitive rock rich in carbon, though more porous, rubbly, and containing less hydrated minerals than initially predicted.

  • We can just study the collective behavior of things that are like soups of interacting proteins that are more primitive.

  • Curious jumble of modern and ancient city and village, primitiveness and the other thing.

  • It is important to realize the relative primitiveness of transportation at the close of the Civil War.

  • Primitiveness, we must remember, does not depend on antiquity of date.

  • You may get a gazelle on the way, or you may not, but you will experience mountain exploration in all its primitiveness.

  • “I fear you will detect much initial primitiveness in our methods of transportation,” he said.

  • This charm (let me add) by no means consists in mere primitiveness or mere archaism.