primitive

[ˈprɪmətɪv]

Definition:
1. A person who belongs to early stage of civilization.
2. Belonging to a very simple society with no industry, etc.
3. Belonging to an early stage in the development of humans or animals.

Use 'primitive' in a sentence:

1. In the other rooms, he operates a primitive factory making jelly.
2. Though primitive and crude in form, this stone carving has very high artistic value.
3. Primitive tribes lived by fishing, hunting and gathering.
4. But early whaling was restricted by primitive tools and whaling techniques.
5. From these studies, scientists have concluded that the surface of the primitive Earth was covered with oceans containing the molecules fundamental to life.
6. The primary key can't be a primitive type.
7. Primitive humans needed to be able to react like this to escape from dangerous animals.
8. The marks on the inside of one antelope jaw showed the primitive people cut out the tongue.
9. They do these things better in primitive life, for there the adolescent boy joins his father in making canoes and going out fishing or hunting.
10. The facilities on the campsite were very primitive.
11. "Social norms are primitive and elemental," says Dr. Robert Cialdini, author of Influence ： The Psychology of Persuasion.
12. It's using some rather primitive technology.
13. At the end, the construction was primitive.
14. Set vertex streams and index buffer to the primitive.
15. The Anthropology of the future will not be concerned above all else with primitives.
16. Beside this, prehistoric man looks technologically primitive.
17. It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.
18. The living conditions there were pretty primitive.
19. He was an Italian primitive.
20. This is due to their direct lineage from primitive sorcery dance.
21. Social norms are primitive and elemental.
22. The constitution of a primitive society is not necessarily simple.
23. He used a camera obscura, which was a primitive camera.
24. He made a primitive boat out of some pieces of wood.
25. Even if Earth's surface were not actually sterilized by this bombardment, it is unlikely that any but the most primitive life-forms could have survived.
26. There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped, but the languages they speak are by no means primitive.
27. A primitive way of making a fire is by rubbing two stones together.
28. And what did primitive man make of them?
29. It was in this old and primitive way that Martin wooed Ruth.
30. At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, research scientists have designed a 4-inch silicon chip that holds 700 tiny primitive motors.
31. The paradox is that the region's most dynamic economies have the most primitive financial systems.
32. The primitive surgery of those days left him virtually deaf in one ear.
33. Panksepp has studied rats and found that when they play, they often chirp—a primitive form of laughter, according to the scientist.
34. At the time, medicine was still a primitive quasi-science.
35. "Social norms are primitive and elemental," says Dr. Robert Cialdini, author of Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.
36. Duffy's primitive guitar playing is well below par.
37. Primitive people usually lived in caves.
38. It had a brain that might have been even smaller than that of a modern lemur, a primate with primitive traits.
39. She brought her children into the world at a time when obstetrics was a primitive art.
40. Aboriginal art has finally gained recognition and broken away from being labelled as 'primitive' or 'exotic'
41. Primitive man quickly learned how to manipulate tools.
42. And bacteria, primitive forms of life, have been seen there.
43. The Hindus did produce some primitive mathematics.
44. Early dental techniques were of course a lot more primitive.
45. This book describes the march of the civilization of a primitive society.
46. Primitive man hunted wild animals with crude stone implements.
47. The conditions are primitive by any standards.
48. Fossilized remains of Acanthostega, a primitive fish, reveal that even though the animal had rudimentary limbs, it could not walk on land.
49. Around the beginning of the 20th century there were actually some primitive solar water heaters on the consumer market.
50. The scientific investigation team devote themselves to seeking for traces of primitive man.
51. Life in the village is too primitive for me; if you want any water you have to pump it up from a well.
52. Are you saying there might be primitive life on the moon?
53. So, it's a primitive tree.
54. A lack of detail suggests a primitive style.
55. This is not because God created them to poke fun at us; it is because humans and chimps are descended from the same relatively recent primitive ape.
56. They made some claims about these calls qualifying as an actual language, with its own primitive grammar.
57. The methods of communication used during the war were primitive by today's standards.