English Dictionary

primitive

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɹɪmɪtɪv/

形容詞

古風

Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first. / Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.

日本語の意味

起源や初期の時期に関する、原始的な状態であること / 古風・初期の時代に遡る性質を持っていること / 単純で基本的な、未発展な様子

The primitive artifacts discovered in the valley offer rare insights into daily life at the dawn of human history.

谷で発見された最初期の人工物は、人類史の夜明けの生活についての貴重な洞察を与えてくれる。

意味（1）

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

primitive innocence; the primitive church

意味（2）

Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.

a primitive style of dress

意味（3）

Crude, obsolete.

primitive ideas

意味（4）

(grammar) Original; primary; radical; not derived.

a primitive verb

意味（5）

(biology) Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.

意味（6）

(mathematics) Not derived from another of the same type

意味（7）

(linguistics, dated) most recent common ancestor (often hypothetical) of

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).

more primitive （ comparative ）

most primitive （ superlative ）