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"primitive" Definitions
  1. [usually before noun] belonging to a very simple society with no industry, etc.
  2. [usually before noun] belonging to an early stage in the development of humans or animals
  3. very simple and old-fashioned, especially when something is also not convenient and comfortable synonym crude
  4. [usually before noun] (of a feeling or a desire) very strong and not based on reason, as if from the earliest period of human life
"primitive" Synonyms
earliest primaeval(UK) primeval(US) first original primordial primal aboriginal indigenous autochthonous pristine primary autochthonic primigenial antique fundamental essential elementary lower embryonic outdated outmoded obsolete antiquated archaic prehistoric ancient superannuated antediluvian medieval(US) old obsolescent prehistorical mediaeval(UK) bygone early defunct extinct immemorial naive unsophisticated innocent simple green ingenuous unworldly unsuspicious unsuspecting unwary naif unknowing simpleminded uncritical childlike dewy undeveloped underdeveloped artless unaffected backward backwards developing unprogressive preliterate non-industrial third world benighted godforsaken disadvantaged impoverished lagging poor crude rough unrefined rude basic rudimentary makeshift low rough-hewn rough and ready clumsy rough-and-ready rough-and-tumble jerry-built jerry-rigged wild savage uncivilised(UK) uncivilized(US) barbaric barbarous feral fierce undomesticated untamed brutish barbarian uncultured animal coarse raw unevolved brutal ferocious vicious natural native uncultivated untouched remote unprocessed untreated organic unprepared whole undressed unpolished uncivil provincial heathen heathenish Neandertal Neanderthal unschooled uncouth foundational initial inaugural maiden preliminary antecedent prior foundation prefatory pilot prelusive opening precursory instinctive inherent innate congenital hereditary inborn inbred inherited intuitional intuitive involuntary hard-wired ingrained in the blood basal intrinsic uncomplicated underlying mere sheer pure pure and simple elemental radical meat-and-potatoes principal cannibalistic anthropophagous colonial frontier unsettled outland new vestigial incomplete atrophic immature abortive degenerate functionless nonfunctioning useless non-functional inchoate incipient nascent beginning budding bestial animalistic beastlike beastly theriomorphic theroid animalian brute ferine zoic zoomorphic bearish zoologic inexperienced unseasoned untrained inexpert untried unversed unconversant unpracticed unskillful maturing unpractised unqualified unskilled amateur radix radical word cannibal anthropophagite man-eater aborigine anthropophaginian anthropophagist anthropophagus beast flesh-eater head-hunter ogre ogress people-eater ruffian beastlike human bush dweller cruel person autochthon indigene indigen bushman local original inhabitant inhabitant boor bumpkin hick clodhopper hayseed rube oaf yahoo clod peasant thug goon hooligan yob hoon yobbo primitive person wild man wild woman savage person philistine lout ignoramus vulgarian More
"primitive" Antonyms
modern late advanced civilised(UK) civilized(US) derivative derived developed later recent auxiliary cultured current imprimitive minor new present secondary unimportant sophisticated cosmopolitan experienced knowing refined worldly worldly-wise adult mature trained tutored calm kind mild moderate nice polite tame knowledgeable seasoned industrial literate schooled educated enlightened lettered well-informed well-read politic hardened artful smart perceptive astute evolved high higher elaborate progressive forward improved innovative revolutionary complex groundbreaking leading highly developed forward-thinking forward-looking future upcoming coming downstream eventual forthcoming imminent ensuing impending latter coming up down the line down the road to come down the pike yet to come to be contemporary up-to-date fashionable hot mod modernist modernistic newfangled new-fashioned present-day red-hot space-age state-of-the-art ultramodern chic culty happening modish artificial unnatural manufactured fabricated contrived simulated fake pretend synthetic unreal faked substitute false man-made civil polished urbane metropolitan cultivated genteel mannerly gentle couth latest newest neoteric fresh brand new newly released just released latter-day immediate up to date subsidiary ancillary supplementary complementary support supporting backup appurtenant nonmechanical reasoned cerebral inessential extra lesser redundant trivial superfluous unnecessary additional irrelevant unessential dispensable insignificant incidental optional peripheral detailed complete comprehensive exhaustive definitive full thorough extensive finished overall accurate absolute meticulous completed expansive broad inclusive particularised(UK) particularized(US) intricate classy complicated elegant involved cutting-edge high-tech clever delicate leading-edge final last ultimate terminal terminating ending end concluding culminating endmost finishing closing conclusive hindmost bottommost broken busted domestic domesticated gentled tamed organised(UK) organized(US) systematised(UK) systematized(US) practical proportional sound stable steady structured symmetrical tidy ingenious neat precise shipshape systematic arranged processed dressed treated fine fine-grained prepared functional perfect useful well developed humanitarian nonnative charmer enthusiast exciter gentleman gentlewoman gentle soul man of honor polished man refined man good bloke

516 Sentences With "primitive"

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ERIC GARCETTI: Yeah, there's no primitive friends, no primitive enemies.
Everything that I do comes from a primitive source, a primitive fucking spot in my center.
Now we're talking not just about a primitive anatomical characteristic; we're talking about a primitive culture.
Primitive Man Time for another go-round with Primitive Man (their third visit to Tilburg in the past year).
The spine was a combination of primitive and Neanderthal-like, the pelvis resembled that of another more distant human relative, Australopithecus afarensis (dubbed Lucy), and the thighs also looked primitive.
The Chamberlain reconciles this contradiction as a natural, primitive survival instinct, but he's also open about manipulating the other Skeksis's primitive greed to get what he wants most: more power.
For his doctorate at Princeton in 1954 he analysed a "learning machine" he had built as an undergraduate to simulate the neural networks of the brain: primitive information in, primitive information out.
That's a much more primitive, fundamental, backbone universal color categorization.
Don't you deserve a little primitive projection, now and again?
As her video suggests, the temptation is simple and primitive.
Primitive sex bots are already available and growing in popularity.
This machine was about the most primitive quantum computer imaginable.
This advance from primitive victimisation may already be under way.
Primitive life, it would seem, was eager to get going.
There's also this primitive relationship that we have with fire.
We can't even believe we lived through such primitive times.
I get also some ideas from tribal and primitive art.
He is not naïve, you think, but he is primitive.
By today's standards, the original iPhone was a primitive brick.
These include the use of celestial cycles as primitive calendars.
Even the most primitive examples embodied some sort of ideology.
You could get these primitive prints made from color slides.
It's dangerous right now, albeit in generally more primitive terms.
It looked primitive compared to Street Fighter, he told himself.
Ectothermy was traditionally held to be the more primitive condition.
Taking things back to the primitive, the rite of passage.
Could these beasts understand the primitive conversations around the fire?
His first popular book, The Mind of Primitive Man of
Texas' El Paso Zoo can now fill that primitive need.
Equipment was limited and rather primitive, providing only minimal protection.
Right now, we're doing this with these really primitive sensors.
Religious liberty is in many ways the primitive core of liberalism.
My senses and my perception were reset to a primitive level.
Any true computer is just a simulation of this primitive abstraction.
It was a solution to problems of a more primitive age.
Remote societies may be materially simple; "primitive", their languages are not.
The second is to control the "reptile brain"—primitive, instinctual functions.
Thomas Edison listening to a primitive version of headphones circa 1871.
Anandakrishnan knows that exploding small bombs in ice may seem primitive.
The software interface is simple, almost primitive, in its early stages.
The Gusii and Kuria tribes do it with very primitive instruments.
It was an early, if primitive, form of big-data collection.
The rub, here: From a primitive perspective, it makes perfect sense.
Their method for catching the animals is both cruel and primitive.
Russia achieves this with bots that possess only primitive digital automation.
What's more, the bot is a pretty primitive way of interacting.
But these are primitive feathers, and most are a foot long.
By today's smartphone standards, the original Motorola Razr phone is primitive.
In what ways was life still what we might consider "primitive"?
He has a theory: "This was a primitive society," he said.
Back in primitive 2017, I'd be able to check my phone.
The sounds are really basic and primitive for what they are.
In Cragswoman a primitive cylinder is used to represent the figure.
Sauvage, like its English cognate, means wild and primitive, fierce, unsociable.
It's a major improvement on the comparatively primitive 2009 app, MyPantone.
The primitive part of our brain wants us to stay alive.
We are doing it out of a primitive need for vengeance.
The war hastened technological progress with optics, radio and primitive sonar.
"Emotional contagion is a primitive form of empathy," Dr. Ruffman said.
A primitive instinct for survival takes over: It's him or me.
"This was not 1970s medicine; this was very primitive," he added.
A refinement from tribal hatreds and primitive fears to common bonds.
He dismissed any different treatment of men and women as primitive.
It's poetic but also primitive and strong, which is very Fendi.
We have a primitive response to a face looking at us.
Primitive forms of AI have been around for a long time.
In other words, Kimmel is resorting to the kind of primitive, testosterone-fueled, antisocial behavior that America in the 21st century should have left behind -- all in order to address Moore's alleged primitive, testosterone-fueled, antisocial behavior.
But the mainly low-budget cars appeared dowdy, primitive, even potentially unsafe.
But the Jebel Irhoud fossils display more primitive features than Apidima 1.
I previously learned HTML basics on Xanga, a primitive form of Tumblr.
Infestation looks simple, primitive, as a great many 2D games do nowadays.
Asteroids are chunks of primitive rocky bodies that orbit around the sun.
Naledi's head was also a puzzling combination of advanced and primitive features.
Then his vocalizations became stranger and more primitive: distressed breathing, howls, squeals.
The primitive nature of the technique transports one far back in time.
But I think you're right, we regard them as primitive and risky.
This gave it expansive rights to overhaul North Korea's primitive energy sector.
My taste runs a little bit toward the primitive, nothing too slick.
It was fairly primitive, but you could tell there was something there.
To fight this invasion, farmers started bombarding their fields with primitive pesticides.
Managing, buying and selling commercial real estate is a fairly primitive process.
Primitive mammals appeared during the Triassic Period roughly 210 million years ago.
The AI we have today, however, is still in its primitive stages.
Addiction hijacks the primitive part of the brain that handles survival instincts.
On the outside, this little ratite, or flightless bird, looks physically primitive.
The conflict has become a bipolar combination of the primitive and futuristic.
But it just doesn't matter to the primitive part of the brain.
"primitive."  The Caucasus has always been something exotic, foreign, and backwards in
This prompted him to begin teaching a class on primitive navigation techniques.
Andrade was a pretty primitive fighter when she came to the UFC.
Most charging systems depend on fairly primitive systems for topping up batteries.
Such primitive associations appear to be impervious to advances in scientific understanding.
And the computing power we have today will look primitive by 2030.
He did his calculations by feeding punch cards into a primitive computer.
He operated the munitions systems, which by today's terms were rather primitive.
In "Primitive Games," his roles included instructor, coach referee and role model.
Blending in primitive art is a Modernist tendency, and it's not minimalist.
Primitive head-mounted displays were invented more than half a century ago.
Primitive footwear — specifically a leather Eskimo boot — inspired the stripped-down shape.
He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest-trees.
There is a theory that catatonia is an innate, primitive fear response.
John J. Cox, a minister with the Primitive Baptist Church, officiated. Mrs.
They are inherently jingoistic, relying on primitive posturing to provide any payoff.
Still, stereotypes persist that Appalachian food and culture are primitive and backward.
Manufacturing plants relied on primitive robots to move materials on fixed routes.
It had a   beautifully primitive Feel —like before people recognized seasons repeat.
He is a connoisseur of primitive technology—simple yet highly effective tools.
Why couldn't he live by instinct and appetite, be primitive, be free?
The Malapa fossils showed an odd mixture of primitive and modern traits.
Smith uses basic technology — media that seem at once advanced and primitive.
The toilets are primitive, the ventilation bad, the smell unbearable, he said.
But he was actually born in primitive Esperia, in rural Italy, in 1905.
Blockchain games are very primitive these days with the most famous being CryptoKitties.
This technology actually already exists, albeit in a somewhat primitive form, he said.
Some traders grew relatively rich, as did workers in Raqqa's primitive oil refineries.
The device was primitive, only accepting characters, but it worked in real time.
So far, even our primitive sims are often more entertaining than reality itself.
"These are utterly erroneous allegations, and rather primitive," Peskov told journalists in Moscow.
The North American system was more conservative and linear and systematic, almost primitive.
Engage in primitive dialogue from the pre-internet era," and ends with "12.
The primitive dragonfly and damselfly are special cases, lacking smell-processing centers altogether.
However, a primitive brain reflex may have overridden his rational cognitive thought process.
This is the most distant and most primitive world ever explored by spacecraft.
There are zero birds that big from Hell Creek with feathers this primitive.
Red tape, a sluggish bureaucracy and primitive regulation continue to deter foreign investment.
Caption: The hardware was primitive in 1989, but the experience felt unbelievably real.
C elegans mostly consists of a primitive digestive tract and some clear gunk.
Human rights groups criticized experimental trials in Africa and China, calling them primitive.
But students and instructors alike describe the remote courses as improvisational and primitive.
In "Outsmarting Our Primitive Responses to Fear," Kate Murphy writes: What scares you?
Even our most primitive need — sleeping — has somehow become a fun, sexy industry.
She was mesmerized by his energy, his humor and his almost primitive charm.
To be honest, I think the whole thing is still a bit primitive.
These more primitive areas of the brain demand less of our mental energy.
Four boys were seated on the floor making primitive catapults with Jenga blocks.
The urge to get out of a bad situation is great, perhaps primitive.
They're quaint and primitive and thank God we're here to save their souls.
He acted as though this primitive logic were obvious and shared by all.
These would have allowed primitive life forms to wait out the ice age.
Slow, primitive airplanes that would burn "like candles" if struck by antiaircraft fire.
Following it up with "This was a bit more primitive" is less great.
And it will take even longer because research on Zika is so primitive.
Clearly, she is neither primitive nor child-like when it comes to color.
"People respond to robots in a primitive, social way," Li told the Guardian.
GRU&aposs phishing venture, although widespread, was primitive compared with the SVR&aposs capabilities.
As primitive as these stick-hands are, they double the sense of being present.
How these primitive humans managed to accomplish these incredible migratory feats remains a mystery.
But the fact that barbules were present on such primitive feathers challenges that theory.
After dinner, guests could try their hand using an atlatl, a primitive spear thrower.
This kind of mining is "artisanal", meaning primitive and dangerous, not expensive and handmade.
In some places, they are primitive stone stacks; in others, elaborate hive-like monuments.
The YouTube account Primitive Technology has only 22 videos, but each is a gem.
It may look scrappy; it may be comparatively primitive (although, increasingly, it is not).
The one that jumped out at me in the store was "modern or primitive"?
In Russia, there were rumors of a more primitive kind of justice taking place.
Doctors tried a primitive version of immunotherapy against cancer more than 100 years ago.
Displaying primitive ingenuity, the movie recalls Georges Méliès and the early days of cinema.
"We discovered that this feature was the notochord, the primitive backbone," said Dr. McCoy.
The song will survive, probably as the last living relic of our primitive culture.
What is more primitive than simply swinging in the same hand over and over?
Miners working with primitive tools in deadly environments produce the feedstock for our devices.
Their sound is most succinctly described as primitive brutal death with compressed guttural vocals.
Camouflaging a primitive online robot as a blue collar worker from Wisconsin is trivial.
It was a really early one, real primitive compared to what you've got now.
"It's pretty primitive," said Philip Lieberman, president and CEO of security firm Lieberman Software.
Every culture experiences it, and it serves a primitive function of keeping us safe.
At the time, the Inuit in the Belcher Islands weren't primitive, they were traditional.
His primitive policies were rejected so much that it caused reaction in Latin America.
Behind him was an aluminum boat and a million square miles of primitive wilderness.
The living arrangements were primitive; trainees had to share the flea-infested sleeping bags.
Her staged self-portraits question how Western manufacturers both appropriate and create "primitive" designs.
Frankie knew that something very primitive and brutal was about to come to him.
Brutal Black recalls you to the primitive brutality that was screwed up by modernity.
"I tried to generate some primitive photo essays and failed," Mr. Goldblatt told frieze.
Static shots are edited in a deliberately primitive style, eliding crucial bits of narrative.
When scientists formally named it in 2003, they described it as a primitive lepidosaur.
The pavilions for Haiti and for African nations, designed as primitive huts, came first.
Though lunglessness may seem strange, or even primitive, these animals have obviously been successful.
Doing so probably would have foiled what Mr. Obama called a fairly primitive attack.
The Mars so produced will closely resemble the conditions existing on the primitive Mars.
John Plant, an Australian in his mid-30s, started Primitive Channel in May 2015.
However, even our primitive lawn-ninja hypothetical can illustrate some types of attribution challenges.
In fact, primitive fleas were dining on dinosaur blood about 165 million years ago.
You don't have a primitive reptilian brain tucked inside your more sophisticated mammalian tissues.
Haiti is presented as a primitive, orderless place where witchcraft and zombies run rampant.
In a primitive way, it's like male gorillas battling for access to the females.
They are inaccessible places, where supposedly primitive, backward people live, and where enemies lurk.
And of all the different characteristics he could have emphasized, he emphasized the primitive.
The quality of the VR experience at that time was primitive but still pretty good.
That evolved civility combined with the characters' primitive lifestyles makes the show feel enthrallingly timeless.
Needless to say, we aren't in danger of these primitive bots becoming sentient anytime soon.
If life does exist elsewhere, Bowman said, it would most likely be primitive and microscopic.
It can also now fire lasers at primitive man-bears stuck in the Stone Age.
Risks include indebted Iranian banks, a primitive legal system, corruption and an inflexible labor market.
A play is enacted on the primitive stage with several hundred masked audience members watching.
Though it looks primitive, this represents a great advance over traditional west African farming methods.
Former Australian immigration minister Philip Ruddock once called it the country's most primitive processing center.
That may be good for primitive marine life, but not so good for aspiring civilizations.
Primitive achondrites come from asteroids that were heated to the point where they were melted.
That was due, in part, to the primitive process used for figuring out what worked.
This lends a really wonderful, primitive quality and that's what people really love about it.
A structure to my right is covered with primitive symbols, remnants of an alien language.
It's a primitive trick, but it usually works if you have the nerve to try.
The writing reflected, as best as possible, that new dawning and obviously still primitive awareness.
Dr. June had tried everything to save her, including the primitive immune therapies under development.
A primitive version of VR technology was developed to simulate flight in the late 1920s.
The out-of-the tube colors match the artist's primitive touch: red, blue, black, green.
A primitive firestarter like flint and steel would've been a better choice for Miss Perry.
"We are creating a very primitive brain of an insect, a dragonfly," Bar-Nahum said.
I think our approach to songwriting is very primitive and reactionary, there is no predestination.
Primitive skills like hunting and hoarding will distinguish survivors from victims when the end comes.
For a while, in the 80s everything was like, it's gotta be kind of primitive.
That manifests as a primitive form of communication that sounds like incoherent noise to us.
It was the world's most primitive art form, reconceived through several levels of digital technology.
Next to the Throne of Elijah sat a primitive Wurlitzer jukebox, made of fumed oak.
In light of the medium's sci-fi potential, Snapchat's 3D Bitmoji animations are relatively primitive.
"It is currently complete primitive guesswork," Leanne Maree Williams, a professor at Stanford University, says.
There has also been a major financial re-evaluation of his hauntingly primitive stone sculptures.
"What we see in the new cranium is like a primitive face," Haile-Selassie said.
These early parrots were more primitive than ones found in Australia and other areas today.
He said he used to be more dogmatic about living primitive, but that is changing.
Mr Dixon dispels old colonialist prejudices that European languages are sophisticated and indigenous ones primitive.
It affects all the senses, and in primitive societies was considered a God, and worshiped.
While fitting for certain occasions, these primitive vessels do not enhance the wine-drinking experience.
Treatment for concussions is still primitive and focused on the symptoms and not a cure.
What these designers created, with what we now consider fairly primitive techniques, is simply breathtaking.
He's going to have really divergent big toes, which is considered a more primitive characteristic.
They're using primitive tools because we're still early on the journey to creating better tools.
Primitive steam engines began appearing in the 17th century, and the telephone was patented in 1876.
Facebook, YouTube, and Reddit didn't exist, or were just primitive versions of what they are today.
Without shallow waters, this new research suggests, early life might remain stuck in a primitive mode.
Negative stereotypes of Roma portray them as thieves, primitive or violent people, and abductors of children.
It's remarkable how obstinate some people are about hanging onto the primitive tenets of the past.
The earliest toys bearing silicon boards were primitive, of course, but they were also quite expensive.
Our primitive brains smartly evolved the capacity to quickly sense potential threats, to keep us safe.
Stereoscopic photography, a type of primitive 3D imaging and proto-GIF, dates back to the 1800s.
What's more, the presence of tectonic activity would bolster the moon's ability to harbor primitive life.
A team of researchers have been studying a primitive, upside-down jellyfish genus known as Cassiopea.
The H. Rider Haggard novel King Solomon's Mines, for example, caricatured "natives" as savage and primitive.
Primitive rock'n'roll wasn't yet geared toward storytelling, and the turns of phrase championed by Cole Porter.
The days of using Uber just to hail an Uber are starting to look downright primitive.
If investors have their way, that status quo will look quite primitive in a few years.
But what we have is a government designed for a primitive age nothing like our own.
Star FoxThe SuperFX graphics might look primitive by today's standards, but they were bomb in 1993.
I was all alone with no one around to police the spill of my primitive desires.
The cuboid solid primitive, a mainstay of Unity prototypes and jam games, should be retired now.
For example, black people make several appearances in Kusama's 2002 autobiography as exotic or primitive beings.
For frantic moderns, silence also seems part of the comfort offered by primitive or eternal things.
What happens in your primitive brain is that you trust, you believe, because it's in sync.
"Huge confetti cannons and flamethrowers are very primitive," Prydz says of the usual attention-getting tricks.
Primitive technology by today's standards, but mind-blowing to kids who didn't grow up with smartphones.
The Luzon premolar teeth also look primitive, but the molars are modern and H. sapiens-like.
Primitive systems were good enough for small communities, but larger communities required delegation, and more formalism.
An artist's interpretation of the newfangled pterosaur snacking on a primitive crocodylomorph known as a sphenosuchian.
We cannot contact them now if they're primitive civilizations—or if they're still bacteria or trees.
The first is boring, which is that most of musculoskeletal and pain medicine is surprisingly primitive.
"Our work explores the inner kid, primitive expression, visual synchronicities, and post-internet tendencies," they say.
Primitive elevators have been around since 236 B.C., but they relied on manpower -- lots of it.
Put a screenshot beside the sole SNES Zelda, and Nintendo's title looks primitive, childish, past it.
Some critics consider it Herge's most primitive piece and believe the artist was embarrassed by it.
But even as the glimmers of the technological future were emerging, much would seem primitive today.
Fighting sports have long been considered primitive, and to a certain extent, that belief is true.
These primitive beings could do little more than respond to our prompts with pre-programmed texts.
Given the primitive state of CNT manufacturing at this stage, a bad tube is practically guaranteed.
Mr. Fernandes thus satirizes the popular fantasy of African art as a symbol of primitive authenticity.
Approximating a human brain is maybe not even possible, but a primitive parasite is another story.
In its own perhaps primitive way, it bangs, and throbs, it demands to be moved to.
If human empathy is so robust and adaptive, it must have evolved from more primitive forms.
The implication was that adding the tactile dimension would make everything else seem primitive by comparison.
I feel like I always have a clear mind, with no primitive sexual instincts distracting me.
It's primitive at best—just enough to serve the game's purpose and not an ounce more.
Our idea of consciousness was still primitive, and there was a terrible fear of the darkness.
Progress has been so fast that previous periods of my career can seem almost unimaginably primitive.
To your primitive mind, it's as if there are lions and tigers lurking around every corner.
Humanity, I mean, in our primal, primitive state, to which "Early Man" pays paradoxically sophisticated tribute.
Opening non-motorized trails to motorized bikes would effectively eliminate the non-motorized, primitive recreational opportunities.
The teeth bore some resemblance to those of living humans, but the shape seemed strangely primitive.
In the age of quantum mechanics, many might dismiss such superstitions as archaic, primitive and senseless.
"Primitive forms of artificial life will have been generated in the laboratory," the report goes on.
The most primitive dinosaurs, he has speculated, would have had a flavor more like an alligator.
One is exotic and primitive; the other is, like the magazine's presumed readers, white and civilized.
One of the earliest and most primitive enrichment techniques used in this endeavor was gaseous diffusion.
It's a very primitive method and not one I would recommend, unless the estate is small.
"The tools today are primitive," Zuckerberg told Recode, referring to face filters and games like Pokémon.
We ourselves are such a system, as are all our ancestors back to the first primitive cell.
And watching videos of mad inventors building super-sized, flame-throwing lighters undoubtedly scratches a primitive itch.
In the early 1900s, primitive power lines sent electricity crackling across the border between Texas and Mexico.
The findings showed that the animal belonged to one of the otter's oldest and most primitive lineages.
It would be primitive, they knew; neither of the doctor-parents kept medical supplies in the apartment.
People think the ancient world was so primitive that they couldn't have possibly built some desert triangles.
Rather, he counterposed abstraction to what he called "the concrete", while marrying the modern to the primitive.
But the brain case was more primitive — flatter and longer instead of high and round, like ours.
BEEP, BEEP, BEEP went the first satellite to orbit Earth, the primitive Sputnik 1, launched in 20153.
One would expect little else from a band who's shared wax with the intentionally primitive Black Cilice.
"This method of catching shrimp is easy with the only skill needed being basketry," writes Primitive Technology.
They applied those substances to (apparently) willing volunteers and cemented primitive electrodes to their scalps and earlobes.
"We don't know how to find them if they are more primitive than we are," Werthimer said.
"It's a very primitive system, but it saves a lot of money in electricity," the guide notes.
These primitive eukaryotes, dubbed "Gabonionta" by the authors, clustered together en masse, forming a slug-like shape.
Baluška said that as a result, it's not that easy to get grants for primitive-cognition studies.
"The Antarctic experiments it was based on were very primitive," says Maurice Bluestein, an Indiana University engineer.
Memorial bots — even the primitive ones that are possible using today's technology — seemed both inevitable and dangerous.
In 1977, computer graphics were still primitive, the domain of military and university machines made by IBM.
For every sustainably-minded jetsetter, there's a person who wants to get primitive in a luxury treehouse.
The island is designated as a "primitive zone," not a park, according to the parks department's announcement.
Artificial molecular machines are still primitive by comparison, but scientists can already envision applications in the future.
The problem with this primitive method is that it produces too many false alarms and false positives.
"It's hitting on some primitive areas of the brain, things that control appetite and emotions," Hultin said.
When Alibaba was competing with eBay more than a decade ago, China's tech market was pretty primitive.
And between your time with Alcatrazz and Roth, you created the music that would become Modern Primitive?
They became the primitive dwellings of desperate men who gradually saw no benefits to ever checking out.
When I returned, I was thinking about the primitive, defined lines and stylized beauty of this work.
If you can resist covering your eyes, it's worth watching for the primitive satisfaction that payback elicits.
He scored two touchdowns on one of the game's simplest and most primitive plays, a quarterback sneak.
What may feel like a primitive intuition, a gut feeling, is made possible by those previous simulations.
Impressively lean and rigidly controlled, "The Survivalist" achieves, at times, the primitive allure of a silent movie.
"This isn't so primitive," he tells me one night as we're in the kitchen preparing the meal.
Even those primitive TV shows were reaching more people than the magazine did, or soon would be.
Even primitive enthusiasm (at one point, a woman next to me gutturally yelped like a SoulCycle devotee).
"The primitive technology consisted of human labor and beasts of burden," said Franco Pierotti, director of extractions.
Studying primitive spiders is tricky because they lack an internal skeleton, which means they don't fossilize well.
Though still in a primitive state, it was maturing rapidly, and Mr. Keane soon became a convert.
"Start with elements that you may be afraid of because of that atavistic, primitive danger," Robbins says.
He said in October 2007 that women as a whole were "extremely primitive," according to the transcripts.
He has reinforced the stereotype of all missionaries as brash young colonizers trying to tame "primitive" tribes.
The scales on the bottom of the feet did not undergo this change and instead stayed primitive.
" Crossword solvers, the column claimed, "get nothing out of it except a primitive sort of mental exercise.
Flight attendants were nurses first, given the somewhat primitive nature of pressurized cabins back in the day.
" He also called Iraq a "crappy place filled with a bunch of, you know, semiliterate primitive monkeys.
This is typical of Kyle: He buries his nihilistic wit with primitive illustrations and naïvely cryptic text.
John Gray: It's their idea of religion as a failed scientific theory of everything, a primitive science.
It is a very primitive level, but it is absolutely necessary to make progress on other levels.
Their culture was considered "primitive," and anthropologists in the 20th century studied their supposedly obsolete way of life.
But something didn't add up: The specimens looked more primitive than what you'd find from 2250,2000 years ago.
It's about as primitive an organism as you can find that can still teach you about human biology.
I was flattered by the most primitive, unsophisticated offer by one of the most powerful men in film.
These ideas have been proven correct many years later by researchers studying primitive light-sensing organs in animals.
Pokémon Go, a smartphone game that briefly entranced people in 2016, used a primitive form of the technology.
The GIF — a primitive image format designed in the early days of the internet — is detached and humorous.
But, Dr. Polyak asked, why then would a pigmented skin cell spontaneously revert to a primitive embryo cell?
Or, perhaps, is it because we still see black people in Africa as primitive, not as fellow humans?
"[Hagfish] are primitive jawless fishes with an eel-like body," deep sea ecologist Andrew David Thaler told Gizmodo.
WERE there far fewer undiscovered ideas out there than in our more primitive past, how would people know?
You use a primitive CAD, define some mechanical properties and it gets manufactured in front of your eyes.
Primitive bots give themselves away by tweeting hundreds of times per hour, but newer ones are more sophisticated.
The real value of this work will emerge from the trillion unexpected combinations of all these primitive elements.
Note the evolution from the more primitive minifig to the modern version with facial expressions and actuated limbs.
But Black Friday also earns its ominous name by prompting primitive and unthinking acquisitive behavior in us all.
Our crowd control methods are primitive, but in this part of the world nothing else would have worked.
Their works were considered primitive... I am revisiting that history to dust it and take a second look.
Each mechanized beast behaves differently, forcing you to lean on the full breadth of primitive weapons on offer.
Most of these were primitive, but some were more advanced models and the pace of advancement was accelerating.
Around 37 percent of all North Koreans work in agriculture and use primitive methods to cultivate the land.
They are primitive cells that can develop into a range of mature cells and perhaps serve as replacements.
But many refugees may never get the chance I did, thanks to Congressional gridlock and primitive political rhetoric.
Israel&aposs high-tech army has not been able to figure out a way stop the primitive kites.
But compared to its camera and what it can do with it, all of those tools are primitive.
"My material existence was so primitive that it would have startled proletarians in Western countries," Milosz reflected later.
A man is telling me these things a prominent man a primitive man is telling me these things.
Effectively, the company was trying to build complex graphics using machines that are very primitive by today's standards.
So, when you're under stress, you freak out and go to your primitive brain and attack and bully.
It was done with an incredibly primitive computer that hardly fits the bill of anything we'd recognize today.
Of course, next to Wipeout and Gran Turismo, 1994's Virtua Racing Deluxe looked very primitive, very quickly.
It was once used to portray Indigenous Australians, and other nonwhite races, as primitive and incapable of development.
I was quite surprised to see this very, very unprepared primitive response in dealing with this human crisis.
Black people were presented as static, primitive and non-technological, often unclothed or presented as savages, he said.
Currently he's working on primitive A.I. so SoFi can use her footage to identify and track real fish.
This primitive fish gave rise to the vast majority of vertebrate species, including all fish with paired fins.
It has the feeling of a primitive ritual, or a "very long séance," as Mr. Balter put it.
In an astrology chart, Black Moon Lilith represents a person's primitive impulses and behavior in their rawest form.
He grew up in the isolated nearby valley town of Bunyah in a primitive shack with leaky shingles.
Libertson says this primitive period, with masters like Moronubu and Masanobu, were known for elegant and vital lines.
The mode of thinking of hallucinogen users has been compared to that of primitive peoples, children and schizophrenics.
There is a shortage of housing, and sewage in some outlying villages still consists of primitive "honey buckets".
Sports statistics were still relatively primitive, and record-keeping, long before the computer age, was a laborious task.
"Everyone knows that Braque and Picasso were strongly influenced by the tribal, primitive art of Africa," he said.
Grasping, hugging, striking, playing, caressing, reaching, scratching backs, and rubbing rears: these are not primitive forms of communication.
"We're hoping to find more, but it's hard to find ones that are that primitive," Mr. Lichtenstein said.
The large family spent the winter living in primitive campers and cramped containers with makeshift bathrooms and kitchenettes.
The monetization of the video was also (by current standards) primitive: He appeared in a Microsoft ad. —K.
The eighteenth century "savage" became the nineteenth century "primitive", no longer something altogether different but instead just backward.
Not to oversimplify solutions but often the most effective measures to secure our cities are the most primitive.
Even online, we cannot escape the primitive, tribal instincts that have guided humanity since our hunter-gatherer days.
So he actually pivots and starts to believe that primitive communism can somehow survive and bypass capitalist development.
If you wanted to be rational and think well, you had to suppress those primitive gremlins, the emotions.
The result is at once acutely distressing and quite lovely, transforming the island into something primitive and inscrutable.
I've got the thing in a case, but—like a primitive madman—I'm not using a screen protector.
Sharing an interest in Mediterranean popular culture and primitive art, they collaborated on local print and exhibition projects.
His first monograph, Transfigurations (2008), is an evolution of the modernist search for form within a primitive landscape.
Its composition is considered primitive because it hasn't significantly changed since its formation about 4 billion years ago.
Jim is homeless, jobless, and living under the freeway in a primitive Seattle homeless encampment called the Jungle.
Only a tinge of regressive naivety was experienced in the room with 22008 bronze birds, "Primitive" (22015–218).
"It is important to note that while Llanocetus is one of the oldest mysticetes [whales], it is not the most primitive, and that a tooth-filtering stage appears to have preceded Llanocetus, further muddying the waters by suggesting that filter feeding was primitive for toothed baleen whales," Boessenecker told Gizmodo.
Compared to sophisticated non-VR face-capture cameras, this was primitive, but there was a good reason for that.
Paleoanthropologist Shara Bailey told NPR that the different features were "exciting" because they exhibited both modern and primitive traits.
The brightness and contrast are excellent, and the game's primitive graphics and colors look lovely on its tiny display.
And, of course, fairly primitive medicine, including the lack of antibiotics, so people really did not live that long.
But that project is quite a bit more primitive than what it sounds like Apple may be going for.
The presence of so many different carbon isotope ratios suggests the rock represents a complex community of primitive organisms.
That's a very complex and modern behavior, and some scientists believe that such primitive humans couldn't have performed it.
Since the first primitive human picked up a rock to use as a tool, humans have lived with technology.
While it's sometimes called a pinhole camera or camera obscura, the simple device is more like a primitive projector.
The next dish was even more basic and primitive than the others: fresh egg yolk with salt and pepper.
"Don't tell me that I can't strip off my shirt and go make a big primitive noise," he said.
According to Bostic, mindfulness attenuates the more evolutionarily primitive areas of our brains — the amygdala, the brain stem, etc.
Wheatley thinks the first part is very primitive, which is why even newborns show the ability to do it.
"The makeshift hospitals are very primitive," Osama al-Shami, a 36-year-old doctor, told Reuters from the area.
Nothing here looks quite as awful and primitive as the cave tenements of Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York.
His work has always been, loosely, American primitive, tracing the veins of Jack Rose, Robbie Basho, and John Fahey.
There's also the basic fact that these areas of neuroscience are at the frontier and in their primitive stages.
It's not naïve or primitive (which is not knowing any better but still full of joy) it's just sullen.
By contrast, the Dune's subterranean galleries invoke the caves in which the most primitive human art was first daubed.
The book is sort of like a cross between my favorite Youtube channel, Primitive Technology, and the comic xkcd.
The bottom line: Wolfram's view is controversial — is it truly a primitive skill to understand the underlying computational concepts?
Lemurs are among the most primitive members of the primate mammalian group that also includes monkeys, apes and humans.
It's tempting to think of the mind as a layer that sits on top of more primitive cognitive structures.
It was primitive, but they were employing the same technique that would catch Rigmaiden more than a decade later.
His death exorcises the self-destructive impulses of primitive society—both man and ape—ensuring independence for his people.
Mind you, the press release for the show provides a justification for using the term "primitive," citing Severi's scholarship.
He saw himself as a Neo-luddite, fighting against the corporate world in favor of a more primitive lifestyle.
The Primitive World by Adolphe François Pannemaker (1857) Pannemaker's colored engraving depicts a world of biological and geological violence.
They are both applied in a very primitive way and share a similar energy, although they are very different.
He looked at Jupiter through a primitive telescope and found that the planet had four moons of its own.
The accompanying texts were a mix of admiration and condescension for traditions that Westerners of the time considered primitive.
Nor can studies to date settle the question of safety when our understanding of epigenetic effects is so primitive.
You can go on day hikes, or go on a three-day hike and be in very primitive country.
During a recent visit to the museum, Mr. Kluetmeier recalled how he caught this primitive physical battle in 2011.
I could almost cry right now because it was, it was so desolate and primitive and... Hey, I'm sorry.
His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied.
Does he fit the criteria for borderline personality disorder, which can include outbursts, obsessions and a primitive ego structure?
Videos from "The Janice Tapes" series (2000) find Ms. Donegan wearing plastic masks that look like punk-primitive headgear.
Their 2014 debut album Hypnotised, released on Sacred Bones, was a record bursting with primitive psych and glimmering electronics.
He has imbibed the primitive élitism of the fitness freak; his success with girls validates his physical self-perfecting.
The tangible despair of Primitive Man's music is even more noteworthy when juxtaposed with the real life Ethan McCarthy.
But they both point to the fact that we've regressed from a sophisticated moral ethos to a primitive one.
That time Bret Stephens defended Tucker Carlson's comments that Iraqi's were "semi-literate primitive monkeys" among other things pic.twitter.
The spacecraft now begins a close study of the primitive space rock, seeking clues to the early solar system.
Kumimanu and Waimanu were already flightless, but they still held onto some primitive traits not found in living penguins.
Uihlein replaced a primitive bandstand there with a $1 million pavilion, she bolted down new furniture to prevent theft.
Marlantes's description of these primitive and unhealthy camps illuminates why early labor strikes centered on demands for simple improvements.
We continue to execute our fellow human beings — methodically, barbarically, with determination — because of a primitive desire for revenge.
The country's primitive infrastructure is far less vulnerable to cyberretaliation, and North Korean hackers operate outside the country, anyway.
Participants in Shaun Leonardo's "Primitive Games" at the Guggenheim Museum debating the issue of gun violence without using words.
From head to toe the ancient hominin displays a medley of primitive, apelike features and more advanced, humanlike characteristics.
Yet they still worked amazingly fast, harnessing the era's primitive technology to pack wild ideas onto four-track tape.
Along with the primitive plumage, the 99-million-year-old amber also preserved soft tissue and eight complete vertebrae.
The archive, in fact, produces the past, and facilitates — along with the museum — the primitive accumulation of people's lives.
Of those, some diverged from the common ancestors of living mammals, but more primitive mammals split off even earlier.
It might have a primitive sort of Americana look in one book but suggest Expressionism or Impressionism in another.
Small pinches and loops of off-white clay and sanded putty, they resemble seashells, bird bones or primitive tools.
Those primitive hunters who lived together in small kin groups did not show reckless courage for its own sake.
" His conservatism, he insisted, "prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.
Masculinity and its perils, the primitive drama of sibling and father-son rivalry, are the wellsprings of Shepard's work.
The place was primitive to an extreme, a set of sandbagged fighting holes cut into stone and sunbaked earth.
Scientists are studying this wad of primitive chewing gum that dates back 5,700 years to learn about ancient Scandinavians.
I think the dynamic of humiliation and shame is very powerful and primal, and he deals in primitive methods.
I think of laws as having a kind of primitive metaphysical status, that laws are not derivative on anything else.
The data, he says, is simply too complicated, and the analyses too primitive, to come to such a hard conclusion.
According to the Boston Globe, White House aides allegedly help draft some of Trump's tweets in his uniquely primitive style.
The painter's quest for a more "primitive" life took him from France to Tahiti and back — and then back again.
The blending of primitive, tribal tools with snippets of advanced technology could feel disjointed and incongruous in less skilled hands.
The formation, called the Nuvvuagittuq (noo-voo-wog-it-tuck) Greenstone Belt, is a fragment of Earth's primitive ocean floor.
But no one imagines that the appearance of the first primitive cells on Earth led predictably to the human race.
Also, just being darker-skinned and coming from a culture that a lot of Ashkenazi saw as primitive or barbaric.
They fish or farm, often using primitive methods, a fact that becomes glaringly apparent as soon as you leave Yangon.
As it began to divide, cancer genes took over and the single primitive cell barreled forward into a massive tumor.
True to its name, naledi was an out-of-this-world find -- an intriguing mix of human and primitive features.
Because the technology is still primitive, many of the spaces seem too "open," as if you were floating in air.
That wasn't the case in the early 2350s, but there were a few primitive live video feeds around back then.
Five years later Geoffrey Hinton, an English polymath, joined CIFAR and began work on the primitive field of neural networks.
Modigliani's treatment of "primitive" art speaks to a different purpose, one bound up in his status as a Sephardic Jew.
It was done to try to improve their lot in life, but it shows how primitive things used to be.
Given that these practices are usually intended for domestic use, Native art is typically perceived as "primitive novelties" or souvenirs.
"We believe that all sections of the Canadian Shield were formed by recycling this much older primitive crust," O'Neil said.
This animal is considered the most basal, or most primitive, non-flying dinosaur to be equipped with feathered proto-wings.
ZeniMax alleges that the Oculus Rift was "primitive" until Carmack added numerous improvements to the headset prototype, alongside ZeniMax employees.
Ford even used the mainframe's storage power to do some primitive market research on a small town called Flora, Illinois.
I immediately raced to the four corners of the map and used my rocket cart to murder my primitive competition.
Even the guns, primitive by modern standards, were serious advances on the rifles used during the wars of the 1800s.
Now, however, to spend any time building your own retail service – even one as primitive as the publisher's – is silly.
Google Cardboard serves this segment for now, but it's starting to look more and more primitive compared to other options.
Relying on a printed tourist guide may feel primitive and immediately inform muggers that you are holding lots of cash.
She had a passion for the "primitive," however, and had committed herself to the preservation of a disappearing black culture.
Standing alone a few feet in front of the stage, he captured most of it on a primitive cassette recorder.
Lutsenko's spokesman Andriy Lysenko said Danylyuk's statement was "seen as a primitive desire to avoid criminal liability for a failure".
Everything will now depend on whether Kim has made that strategic choice in the hope of transforming his primitive economy.
Most people in Mr. Gunday's dark world, reeling from a pandemic of hate, are driven by primitive Darwinian survival instincts.
This was not an erotic set of curves but something even more wondrous, the basic body, the primitive physical structure.
And despite the turbocharger, VW's 232-liter engine delivers its payload without the hesitation of more primitive forced induction motors.
In addition to mustard, they've also used chlorine bombs — a very primitive chemical weapon made from a common cleaning supply.
With his disappearance, a whole chapter of Modernism, one that we could call the "Primitive Paradigm," came to a close.
It was primitive, but The Getaway attempted to painstakingly recreate the real world and a real location in a game.
The quasi-primitive style is offset by the detail, creating an arresting tribute to the things and people Jackson loves.
It enables the agency to re-program the craft as needed using primitive assembly languages like Cobol, Fortran, and Algol.
The Voyager crafts may be old, primitive, and at time clunky to work with, but above it all they endure.
The classics have been celebrated, but history has tried to pigeonhole primitive art and artists, and subject them to irrelevance.
But that's something that people tend to interpret from the Stooges or the Ramones, that they were dumb or primitive.
A Red Cross ambulance transported Paiz's body on the 12-hour drive along primitive roads from the capital to Aguacate.
Yet their preoccupation with childhood and "primitive and irrational wishes and fears" have influenced the study of authoritarianism ever since.
The primitive explosive had been stashed by a wall in the Mariotiyah area near the pyramids, the Interior Ministry said.
Mr. Calderon has done some rewrites for this much-delayed premiere, presented by his and Mr. Zayas's Primitive Grace company.
She has decorated its rough, almost primitive contours with bright strings of beads, metallic rosettes and a pompom-adorned crown.
Their setups were primitive, but the work was often more realistic and technically ambitious than tattoos done on the outside.
What is this older, more primitive part of the brain, which connects us to how a child sees the world?
Always spellbinding, this Morris work is a dark, glowing, exciting plotless drama that suggests both primitive ritual and neurological urgency.
Trilobites A scientist studying the defenses of mollusks called chitons thinks these sea creatures might be less primitive than expected.
In the 19th century, Europeans feared a so-called "yellow peril," brought about by "primitive" people with emerging global power.
One of her last films was "Wild About Harry" (2009), a family drama (originally titled "American Primitive") set in 1973.
The slight and kinetic 30-year-old creates embroidered tableaus that are simultaneously naïve and knowing, primitive and wittily sophisticated.
The current Saurischia group would lose the theropods but add a strange, primitive group of two-legged carnivores called herrerasaurids.
The screens appeared in their most primitive form in the late 1980s with a few movies played on a loop.
" With a trio of materials, Toogood aimed to communicate "the very essential, the very raw, the elemental and the primitive.
But in fact, text messages are such a primitive technology that that's just unencrypted text going out over the network.
"Disrespect can inspire rage because in the most primitive parts of our brains it's tied to our survival," she wrote.
I hit that primitive soffritto with ginger and garlic, and it delivers an immense depth of flavor to the sauce.
It has a triangular head occupied by a rather primitive version of a brain and two black dots for eyes.

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