primitive lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies "primitive societies"
• little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type "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 "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man" "primitive movies of the 1890s" "primitive living conditions in the Appalachi..."
• of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking"
• a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"
• a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
• a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization