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primitive

/ˈprɪmɪtɪv/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈprɪmɪtɪv/
primitive
Syllables
3 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Final e often stays silent

pri - mi - tive -> primitive

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ရှေးကျသော။ ရှေးဦး။ အခြေခံကျလွန်း၍အကြမ်းသုံးသဘောမျှသာရှိသော။ အရိုးခံအကြမ်းသုံး။ အကြမ်းစား။ (n) ရှေးပန်းချီဆရာ

Full entry

primitive /'prÇmǝtÇv/ adj

၁။ ရှေးကျသော။ ရှေးဦး။ primitive culture/rituals/societies ❍ primitive man.
၂။ (often derog ) အခြေခံကျလွန်း၍ အကြမ်းသုံး သဘောမျှသာရှိသော။ အရိုးခံအကြမ်းသုံး။ အကြမ်းစား။ Living conditions in the camp were pretty primitive. ❍ The cave provided a primitive shelter from the storm.
n (က) ဥရောပတွင် ၁၄ ရာစုနှစ်မှ ၁၆ ရာစုနှစ်အတွင်း ရှေးဂရိ၊ ရောမ အနုပညာ တစ်ဖန် ပြန်လည် ဆန်းသစ်သည့် ရီနေဆင့် ခေတ်မတိုင်မီက ပန်းချီဆရာ (သို့) ပန်းပုဆရာ။
(ခ) စနစ်တကျ သင်ကြားခြင်းမရှိဘဲ ကိုယ့်နည်းကိုယ့်ဟန်ဖြင့် ရေးဆွဲသော ပန်းချီ ဆရာ။
(ဂ) ယင်းသို့သော ပန်းချီဆရာလက်ရာ။

More examples
  • A primitive society/tribe
  • Primitive man/life
  • Primitive creatures like jellyfish and corals
  • Primitive tools
  • A primitive camera
  • The conditions in the camp were fairly primitive.
  • A remote and primitive cottage in the mountains
  • A primitive instinct
Synonyms
prehistoric, ancient, primordial, primal, archaic, primeval, aboriginal, aborigine, animal, anthropophaginian, anthropophagite, anthropophagus, atavistic, austere, autochthon, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, basic, brutish, bush dweller, bushman, cannibal, childlike, coarse, crude, cruel person, earliest, early, elementary, embryonic, essential, fierce, first, fundamental, head hunter, head-hunter, headhunter, ignorant, indigene, naive, nascent, natural, nonliterate, ogress, old, original, preliterate, primary, pristine, raw, rough, rude, rudimentary, savage, simple, substratal, uncivilized, uncomplicated, uncultivated, uncultured, underdeveloped, underivative, underived, underlying, undeveloped, undomesticated, unevolved, unlearned, unrefined, unsophisticated, untamed, untaught, untrained, untutored, vestigial, wild
Antonyms
auxiliary, calm, civilized, cultured, current, developed, experienced, kind, mature, mild, minor, moderate, modern, new, nice, polite, present, refined, secondary, sophisticated, tame, unimportant
Cross references
prehistoricancientprimordialprimalarchaicprimevalaboriginalaborigineanimalanthropophaginiananthropophagiteanthropophagusatavisticaustereautochthonbarbarianbarbaricbarbarousbasicbrutishbush dwellerbushmancannibalchildlikecoarsecrudecruel personearliest
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