primitive

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
  2. A member of a primitive society.
  3. Primitive or primeval nature; the innate, instinctive element within a person; the deep, instinctive, precultural layer of human nature.
    — It may be that, living among primitive surroundings, the dormant primitive deep within the white man is drawn towards the absolute primitive in the aboriginal.
  4. Natural or premodern environment or conditions; life lacking modern technology and society.
    — Out there in the primitive, white-man Rust had made his tools out of the primitive, as these stone-age people were making excellent string from the primitive.
  5. A simple-minded person.
  6. A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
  7. Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language.
    — A write-what-where primitive allows the attacker to write arbitrary data wherever they want in the memory
  8. A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
  9. A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
    — primitive innocence; the primitive church
  2. Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
    — a primitive style of dress
  3. Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.; Relating to an art style characterized by asymmetrical shapes and faded colors.
    — I used primitive hearts to decorate the quilt.
  4. Crude, obsolete.
    — primitive ideas
  5. Original; primary; radical; not derived.
    — a primitive verb
  6. Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution. dated
  7. Not derived from another of the same type
  8. most recent common ancestor (often hypothetical) of dated
    — We infer that other groups of related languages, such as the Germanic (or the Slavic or the Celtic), which show a similar resemblance, have arisen in the same way; it is only an accident of history that for these groups we have no written records of the earlier state of the language, as it was spoken before the differentiation set in. To these unrecorded languages we give names like Primitive Germanic (Primitive Slavic, Primitive Celtic, and so on).

词形变化

primitives plural primative alternative,obsolete more primitive comparative most primitive superlative primative alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
modern primitive AADAOPA multiprimitive neoprimitive neoprimitivist nonprimitive preprimitive primitive art primitive colour primitive concept primitive element Primitive Irish primitively primitiveness primitive notion primitive polynomial primitive recursion primitive recursive primitive reflex primitive root primitive streak primitive type primitive wrapper class primitivism primitivist primitivistic primitivity primitivize quasiprimitive semiprimitive ultraprimitive unprimitive

词源

词源 1
From Middle English primitif, from Old French primitif, from Latin prīmitīvus (“first or earliest of its kind”), from prīmus (“first”); see prime. Doublet of primitivo.
词源 2
From Middle English primitif, from Old French primitif, from Latin prīmitīvus (“first or earliest of its kind”), from prīmus (“first”); see prime. Doublet of primitivo.
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