1. 原始的；遠古的；未開(kāi)化的 Primitive means belonging to a society in which people live in a very simple way, usually without industries or a writing system.
primitive在線(xiàn)翻譯
e.g. ...studies of primitive societies. 對原始社會(huì )的研究 e.g. ...primitive tribes. 原始部落
2. （動(dòng)植物）原始的，低等的，進(jìn)化初期的 Primitive means belonging to a very early period in the development of an animal or plant.
primitive的反義詞
e.g. ...primitive whales... 原始鯨 e.g. Primitive humans needed to be able to react like this to escape from dangerous animals... 原始人必須要能作出這樣的反應以逃避危險的動(dòng)物。
3. 古老的；簡(jiǎn)陋的 If you describe something as primitive, you mean that it is very simple in style or very old-fashioned.
e.g. The conditions are primitive by any standards... 無(wú)論用什么標準來(lái)衡量，其條件都很簡(jiǎn)陋。 e.g. The primitive surgery of those days left him virtually deaf in one ear... 那時(shí)候簡(jiǎn)陋的外科手術(shù)讓他一只耳朵幾乎失聰。
primitive英英釋義
primitive什么意思
noun
1. a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
e.g. `pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived
2. a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
3. a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
Synonym: primitive person
adj
1. used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
e.g. primitive societies
2. little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
e.g. archaic forms of life primitive mammals the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe
Synonym: archaic
3. belonging to an early stage of technical development characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
e.g. the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man primitive movies of the 1890s primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains
Synonym: cruderude
4. of or created by one without formal training simple or naive in style
e.g. primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking