PRIMITIVE — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
primitive
A word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms.
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- 'pick' is the primitive from which 'picket' is derived.
A mathematical expression from which another expression is derived.
A person who belongs to early stage of civilization.
Used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies.
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- Primitive societies.
Little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type.
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- Archaic forms of life.
- Primitive mammals.
- The okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe.
Belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness.
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- The crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man.
- Primitive movies of the 1890s.
- Primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mo.
Of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style.
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- Primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking.
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