primitive
adjective
being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world.
primitively
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a word derived from
primitive.
Example Sentences
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“Margaux” is as familiar, junky and primitively satisfying as a can of Pringles.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
Not only was she primitively engaging with staging and character development, but she forged her directing instincts by recruiting neighbors and her two younger siblings to perform in her “films.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
Back then, my critical faculties were barely developed, and I hadn’t yet learned to distrust that which primitively pleased me.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2019
I try to work out whether his media charm offensive is motivated by selfless patriotic duty, or opportunistic self-interest, but the answer turns out to be more primitively powerful than either: his pride.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2018
Sense-data at the times when they are data are all that we directly and primitively know of the external world; hence in epistemology the fact that they are data is all-important.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
