Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - primitive
Primitive
primitive
adj. & n. --adj. 1 early, ancient; at an early stage of civilization (primitive man). 2 undeveloped, crude, simple (primitive methods). 3 original, primary. 4 Gram. & Philol. (of words or language) radical; not derivative. 5 Math. (of a line, figure, etc.) from which another is derived, from which some construction begins, etc. 6 (of a colour) primary. 7 Geol. of the earliest period. 8 Biol. appearing in the earliest or a very early stage of growth or evolution. --n. 1 a a painter of the period before the Renaissance. b a modern imitator of such. c an untutored painter with a direct na{iuml}ve style. d a picture by such a painter. 2 a primitive word, line, etc. Phrases and idioms the Primitive Church the Christian Church in its earliest times. Derivatives primitively adv. primitiveness n. Etymology: ME f. OF primitif -ive or L primitivus first of its kind f. primitus in the first place f. primus first
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I. adjective see: prime Date: 14th century 1. not derived ; original, primary, assumed as a basis, 2. of or relating to the earliest age or period ; primeval , closely approximating an early ancestral type ; little evolved , belonging to or characteristic of an early stage of development ; crude, rudimentary , of, relating to, or constituting the assumed parent speech of related languages , 3. elemental, natural , of, relating to, or produced by a people or culture that is nonindustrial and often nonliterate and tribal , naive, d. self-taught, untutored , produced by a self-taught artist , ~ly adverb ~ness noun primitivity noun II. noun Date: 15th century 1. something ~, a root word, 2. a. an artist of an early period of a culture or artistic movement, a later imitator or follower of such an artist, b. a self-taught artist, an artist whose work is marked by directness and naïveté, a work of art produced by a ~ artist, a typically rough or simple usually handmade and antique home accessory or furnishing, 3. a member of a ~ people, an unsophisticated person ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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