primitively
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6.3
- adverb
- /ˈprɪmɪtɪvli/
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de forma primitiva
- We want to eat much more primitively, much more locally and and as such reduce inflammation.
- live primitively
Examples
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The children played with sounds uninhibitedly, but not at random; the games they played were concerned, however tentatively or primitively, with the structuring of sounds.
Academic text (2014) -
The children often expressed their emotions primitively, using simple drawings and gestures.
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In the name of efficiency and evolution, we've begun to damage our most primitively natural states.
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While specialized learning algorithms lead to computers that think, albeit primitively, like a human, the programs need to learn about their surroundings the way we do—by piecing together bits of information to get a view of the world.
Academic text (2009) -
And yet an almost laughably primitively animated game, with characters who resemble Lego animation, is still revered by its fans ten years after it should have by all rights dissipated into the cultural ether.
Blog text (17) -
He lived primitively in the woods, building a shelter from branches and leaves.
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Many ancient civilizations communicated primitively, relying on symbols and rudimentary languages.
Synonyms
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1.0
You do this in a plain way without extra things
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4.8
In a rough, unskilled, and often rude way
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1.8
In a simple way without decoration
In a simple way with little detail
In a natural, simple way that does not seem planned
Antonyms
How Simple
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Primitively comes from the root primus, meaning 'first', and you can see the same idea in the word primary. So to do something primitively is to do it in a simple, basic, or unsophisticated way, like the 'first' tools people made.