primitive 英音: ['primitiv] 美音: ['prɪmətɪv]

单词详解

  adj.

A.原始的,远古的,未开化的(belonging to a society in which people live in a very simple way

Primitive peoples deified the sun.原始部落将太阳奉为神。

B.(动植物)原始的,低等的,进化初期的(belonging to a very early period in the development of an animal or plant

It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.逃离危险的地方是一种原始本能。

C.古老的,简陋的(it is very simple in style or very old-fashioned

It's using some rather primitive technology.它使用非常古老的技术。

 

相关单词

同义词:original

复数: primitives

比较级: more primitive

最高级:most primitive

副词:primitively

名词:primitiveness

 

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