Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Obsolete spelling of
primitive .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word primative.
Examples
-
In doing research for SHADOW VALLEY and GREAT SKY WOMAN, there was great although not absolute consistency in the types of work males and females did in "primative" groups around the world.
Chakras and stuff Steven Barnes 2009
-
I suppose it's no surprise that violence is the easiest way to deal with conflict and thus the most prevalent, at least in today's "primative" stages.
-
Interestingly, the best take-down of that sort of garbage comes from a Christian - a proper, honest, believing Christian: Albert Mohler: he writes: "And yet Armstrong insists that Darwin really did God a favour by forcing us to give up our 'primative' belief in his actual existance - thus freeing us to affirm merely a 'God beyond God' who exists only as a concept."
Shiraz Socialist charliethechulo 2010
-
Interestingly, the best take-down of that sort of garbage comes from a Christian - a proper, honest, believing Christian: Albert Mohler: he writes: "And yet Armstrong insists that Darwin really did God a favour by forcing us to give up our 'primative' belief in his actual existance - thus freeing us to affirm merely a 'God beyond God' who exists only as a concept."
Shiraz Socialist charliethechulo 2010
-
I, too, actually find anthropologists suspect, because of the sorry history both of imperialism through anthropology of "primative" cultures, and more recently, through the notion that one can "become" part of a culture.
-
I better clarify as it looks like I wrote this primative stuff …
-
A Mexican glass shop made unit (making assumptions here, of the many glass shops I have visited in Jalisco, somewhat primative by US standards) would likely have a butyl seal and maybe get a 5 - 10 year life (those were the expectations here in the past).
-
I can't tell if he knows that his concepts are not translating in the primative (or child) mind.
A final note on Torchwood:CoE and S4 Doctor Who rabid1st 2009
-
More likely some type of early machine like a butter churn or primative Veg-O-Matic. lgoode
What Is It? Game 114 2009
-
More likely some type of early machine like a butter churn or primative Veg-O-Matic. lgoode
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.