primitive
US: /ˈpɹɪmətɪv/, /ˈpɹɪmɪtɪv/
UK: /pɹˈɪmɪtˌɪv/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
primitive /'primitiv/- tính từ
- nguyên thuỷ, ban sơ
- primitive man: người nguyên thuỷ
- primitive communism: chủ nghĩa cộng sản nguyên thuỷ
- thô sơ, cổ xưa
- primitive weapons: vũ khí cổ xưa, vũ khí thô sơ
- gốc (từ, mẫu)
- (toán học); (địa lý,địa chất) nguyên thuỷ
- primitive group: nhóm nguyên thuỷ
- primitive function: nguyên hàm
- nguyên thuỷ, ban sơ
- danh từ
- (nghệ thuật) hoạ sĩ trước thời Phục hưng; tranh của hoạ sĩ trước thời Phục hưng
- màu gốc
- (ngôn ngữ học) từ gốc
Advanced English dictionary
adjective, noun+ adjective
1 [usually before noun] belonging to a very simple society with no industry, etc: primitive tribes + primitive rituals / beliefs
2 [usually before noun] belonging to an early stage in the development of humans or animals: primitive man
3 very simple and old-fashioned, especially when sth is also not convenient and comfortable: The methods of communication used during the war were primitive by today's standards. + The facilities on the campsite were very primitive.
4 [usually before noun] (of a feeling or a desire) very strong and not based on reason, as if from the earliest period of human life: a primitive instinct / desire
primitiveness noun [U]
+ noun
1 an artist of the period before the Renaissance; an example of work from this period
2 an artist who paints in a very simple style like a child; an example of the work of such an artist
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 first, original, aboriginal, earliest, primordial, primal, primeval or Brit also primaeval, pristine, prehistoric; antediluvian, Noachian or Noachic, old, ancient:
In its most primitive state, life probably originated from some random strings of molecules. The most primitive farming tools date from some 10,000 years ago
2 crude, rude, unrefined, raw, barbaric, uncultured, barbarian, coarse, rough, uncivilized, savage, uncultivated, unsophisticated, uncouth:
I cannot tolerate Nigel's primitive table manners.
3 simple, basic, simplistic, naïve, childlike, unsophisticated, uncultivated, unrefined, unpolished, rough, untutored, untaught, untrained, unschooled, undeveloped:
Gary collects paintings of the primitive school and has one by Grandma Moses.
Concise dictionary
primitives'prɪmɪtɪvnoun
+a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
+a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
+a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
adj.
+belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
+little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
+used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
+of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
