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primitive English
Meaning primitive meaning
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The anthropologist delivered a lecture on primitive cultures.
Primitive calculating machines existed long before computers were developed.
Magic plays an important part in primitive society.
They used those primitive tools.
So many members of our civilized society would do well to live some time with a primitive people.
Arrokoth is the most distant, most primitive and most pristine object ever explored by spacecraft.
In primitive societies barter was used.
At that time a primitive people lived there.
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
This is a fairly primitive website.
Movie subtitles
Its mightiest river, the Thames, was, let's be frank, a primitive backwater.
The Tower of London was a pretty primitive edifice compared with the splendours of the great towers of imperial China.
And the life we live Is primitive and proud!
Finding life, even primitive microbial life, would change our place in the universe by telling us that we're not alone.
When primitive man is confronted with something incomprehensible, the explanation is always sorcery and evil spirits.
I maintain, after many years of comparative analyses, that primitive moon-rock contains more gold than the earth's mountains.
The utensils are primitive and few.
Rather primitive humor, I hope.
Primitive natures would think this is fun, but for me it's too conservative.
These people are primitive.
The facilities are primitive.
Well, you must remember, they're primitive people and like.
New Young American Primitive.
She's three and her stuff is really primitive.
And anyway, it think you will like it with me. It's still all a bit primitive, but I even have a rocking chair.
We'd better go and dress. -Rather primitive humour, I thought.
But anyway they must be very primitive.
We Nazis are finding a new life, a new vitality for our people. by returning to the primitive virtues.
No telling what primitive instincts you might arouse.
The methods employed then were very primitive.
Even if the technique of weaving carpets is primitive, the style and overall look is attractive and delicate.
A material matter primitive: prison.
While you were limited to fighting among yourselves with primitive tanks and aircraft, WE WGTG UHCOHCETHEQ.
No, primitive.
Michael, I was thinking, with your primitive mind and timidity, In a few years, you'll be swinging from the branches of the trees.
You're simple, straightforward and honest. A little bit on the primitive side, I should think.
In my case, after all. intimate, primitive and familiar.
Strictly primitive. - Oh.
It satisfies his primitive nature, striding through the woods, picking up his kill.
They speak a strange, primitive tongue.
In this part of Provence, the cult of Diana went on for a long time in its primitive form.
You're the true primitive, primitive like a gothic spire.
News and current affairs
Steel production was promoted by primitive backyard furnaces that industry analysts would consider laughable, but people who understood that had no influence in China then.
Under British analysis, the embryo outside the body did have moral status, but only after the appearance of the so-called primitive streak on or about the 14 th day of development.
Armed with a very primitive computer and some very simple programs written by an undergraduate student, we began matching every new sequence against all previously reported sequences and found many wholly unexpected relationships.
To find any of them one has to travel to the small, primitive, magico-religious communities made up of people. who due to their primitive condition, become progressively more vulnerable to exploitation and extermination.
Our only defenses against a hostile world were primitive stone tools and fire - a minimal kind of protection at best.
A fully functioning legal system and - perhaps more importantly - the mentality associated with the rule of law are often absent, or primitive, in most developing countries.
Today, we do not fear primitive populism or peasant protests; we should, however, begin to fear for the future of Polish democracy, indeed for all the postcommunist democracies.
In many respects, Putin's dictatorship is primitive.
Having invaded an oil-rich Arab country that played no role in the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, the United States has imprudently allowed itself to be sucked into its attackers' primitive logic of collective punishment and group revenge.
The sad fate of our porcine population will not be frowned upon as primitive and anti-European, but will be condoned as a venerable national tradition, preserved in accordance with the best European standards.
These primitive life forms have yielded important, generally valid clues that have forced a comprehensive re-evaluation of the nature of the aging process.
This is primitive justice, to be sure, but how else could justice be done to a mass murderer?
Considering the huge risks that are not managed well, finance, even in the twenty-first century, is actually still rather primitive.
Even when football doesn't lead to actual bloodshed, it inspires strong emotions - primitive and tribal - evoking the days when warriors donned facial paint and jumped up and down in war dances, hollering like apes.
But the fact that sport can unleash primitive emotions is not a reason to condemn it.
The visual politics of terror may seem primitive, but its practice can be as sophisticated as its effects are profound.
One leading idea was that modern humans' primitive ancestor Homo erectus left Africa nearly two million years ago, and dispersed into other areas of the world.
Primitive organisms arose from nonliving matter in what were probably hot, sulfurous, metal-laden, volcanic waters.
Primitive approaches to managing sewage continue to spread infections such as schistosomiasis, trachoma, viral hepatitis, and cholera.
The adoption of technologies like drip irrigation would make current water use seem primitive and outdated.
Moreover, the renminbi remains non-convertible for most capital transactions, China's financial markets are primitive, and trading margins for the exchange rate are still set daily by the monetary authorities.
It is not easy to see how a crisis can now be avoided, or how the European Union can get out of what is really a primitive and atavistic conflict between Greeks and Turks.