Definition of Primitive

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Primitive

Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church.

Of or pertaining to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity; as, a primitive style of dress.

Original; primary; radical; not derived; as, primitive verb in grammar.

An original or primary word; a word not derived from another; -- opposed to derivative.

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Primitive Quotations

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
Stephen Leacock

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
Kurt Vonnegut

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Norman Mailer

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
Paul Cezanne

I like 1977 because it is more primitive. If it were modern day, like one Universal guy was like wouldn't they just use their cell phone? I guess he did not read that it was 1977 in the script.
Rob Zombie

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.
Anna Freud

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
Isadora Duncan

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
John W. Gardner

Good music is very close to primitive language.
Denis Diderot

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
Jean Baudrillard

Primitive Translations

primitive in Afrikaans is primitief
primitive in Dutch is primitief
primitive in French is primitif
primitive in German is primitive, primitiv
primitive in Italian is primitivo
primitive in Portuguese is primitivo
primitive in Swedish is ursprunglig, enkel, primitiv

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