I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a primitive civilization (= one that is not at all advanced )
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His main interest was primitive civilizations.
a primitive society
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In almost all primitive societies, volcanoes have been regarded with fear.
a primitive/simple creature (= one with only a few cells )
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primitive creatures like bacteria
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
art
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The interest in primitive art had come about largely, of course, through the work of Gauguin.
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In the 1980s Jacques Kerchache, a former dealer, collector and connoisseur of primitive art , took up the cudgels again.
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Picasso's instinctive appreciation of the aesthetic principles of trial art was indicative of a new attitude towards primitive art.
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Moreover the government is building, at considerable cost, a museum at Quai de Branly devoted to primitive art .
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Through him, more than through any other single force, the aesthetic worth of primitive art forms came to be recognized.
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They have always refused to place primitive art on the same plane as the work of Western artists.
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This attitude was, of course, purely subjective, and their appreciation of primitive art was almost entirely emotional.
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What I say is roughly this: primitive art as we call it, tribal art, is usually very good.
church
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The primitive church employed mythology to augment and explicate the great truths of the gospel.
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In it the founders dissolved also their own presbytery and headed back for their model to the ideal primitive church .
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Ironically we find that this mixture of heathenism and paganism is rather like living in the primitive church .
culture
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Hence the study of primitive culture is intimately bound up with that of primitive religion.
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Almost all anthropologists have followed suit, speaking of primitive cultures as compared with the civilizations that more developed societies have evolved.
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Town and country here are engaged in the age-old dialogue between advanced civilizations and primitive cultures .
form
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It is spectacular even in its present, relatively primitive form .
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These simple, single-celled creatures are the most primitive forms of life on earth.
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It would he hard to imagine a more primitive form of music than stamping on the ground.
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There are, however, other primitive forms of life that can flourish under such conditions.
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I take it that some very primitive form of life arose spontaneously on earth from chance combinations of atoms.
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The first primitive forms of life consumed various materials, including hydrogen sulfide, and released oxygen.
level
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Before long, I saw more signs of agriculture, on a pathetically primitive level .
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This shows the limiting effects of fixations to primitive levels of development, engaged in out of fear.
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The child can be seen as constructing knowledge at a primitive level , trying to make sense of the surrounding world.
man
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It has been used in baking and brewing ever since primitive man became domesticated.
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Do you know how primitive man generated fire?
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As Lévy-Bruhl pointed out, primitive men saw the chirping of crickets and crying of birds in spring as appeals for rain.
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They had no meaning for primitive man .
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Other themes, such as the importance of the shadow to primitive man , flicker through these lines.
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No doubt, primitive man had slept in the open.
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Of course primitive man was a sun worshipper.
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In that infinitely remote time primitive man could Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea.
people
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The old anthropological concept dreamed up in the universities to describe the potentialities of nature as understood by primitive people .
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After all, these were the most primitive people of all, our earliest ancestors.
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They're embarrassed to have such primitive people represent the country to the rest of the world.
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I know of no primitive people anywhere that either rejects and despises conflict or represents warfare as an absolute evil.
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This would not seem strange to primitive people at all.
peoples
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More than any others, so-called primitive peoples are receptive to nature and model their life and attitudes upon it.
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A number of authoritative scholars seriously question the propriety of interpreting prehistoric remains by reference to the customs of modern primitive peoples .
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It seems that primitive peoples ate human flesh for broadly two reasons.
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All the islands, including even Java, harbour primitive peoples , often still living in stone-age conditions.
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Like all primitive peoples they believed in spirits with influence over human life.
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Between the civilized areas, those occupied by primitive peoples are also the domain of wild animals.
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The West, by contrast, assimilated its own primitive peoples very early on.
religion
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Hence the study of primitive culture is intimately bound up with that of primitive religion .
ritual
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The Waste Land itself functions as a primitive ritual .
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She was absorbed in the primitive ritual of the hunt and work was erased from her mind.
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He was also concerned with primitive ritual as underlying developed ritual.
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But it seems that his interest in primitive ritual had led him to place his own stress on life as a ritual.
society
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As a result there ceases to exist unalloyed the direct feedback, characteristic of primitive societies , between natural conditions and consciousness.
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But trade in slaves has been a universal phenomenon, affecting all primitive societies .
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Teheran, by contrast was a poor and primitive society in those days.
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Thus virtually every primitive society divides the children and teaches the sexes separately.
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He pointed out that the latency period is absent in primitive societies and is found only in higher cultures.
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In primitive societies men have the compensation of physical strength.
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This type of simplistic explanation of primitive societies has dogged Marxist anthropology since Engels's time.
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In primitive societies , practice for Bourdieu must then primarily be about strategy.
tribe
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Even primitive tribes when dancing submit to the discipline imposed by their leaders.
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The ill are no longer ostracized as moral pariahs except by a few remaining primitive tribes ruled by superstition.
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To primitive tribes a head, stuck on a pole at the village boundary, averted evil and brought luck.
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The law of the survival of the fitted governed not only primitive tribes , but the civilized cultures of the ancient world.
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First, of course, you have to locate your most primitive tribe .
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Iii any primitive tribe , rule by male fighters is the most natural form of government.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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primitive machinery
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primitive man
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a primitive design
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fossils of primitive algae
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In those days, dental equipment was primitive and a visit to the dentist was a painful experience.
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It is a primitive but effective device for raising water from a well.
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Mead's research focused on three primitive New Guinea tribes.
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The cabin is primitive and lacks running water.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But how did primitive life-forms first appear on Earth?
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It was basic, primitive and very, very real.
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She was threatened, and the primitive male instinct to protect what was his brought his entire body to battle-readiness within seconds.
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The discovery of this conodont-bearing animal suggests that at least some conodonts may be among the most primitive of vertebrates.
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The gingerbread house represents an existence based on the most primitive satisfactions.
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They are among the most primitive on bony fish, though their skeleton consists largely of cartilage.
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This was barter, the most primitive capitalism, and this was what we were fighting to protect.
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We also stopped to hike on a primitive trail, up and over a short ridge to a small, isolated lake.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Besides, you write in Yiddish, a language no one except a few primitives can understand.
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Brown said he saw Adam and Eve in a remote-viewing session, but they were not naked primitives in a lush garden.
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The primitive was often underscored by social Darwinism.
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They are the unfortunate primitives or fools: we know much better than that!