primitively

as inoriginally
as inprimarily
as inradically
as inearly

Synonyms for primitively

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Antonyms for primitively

secondarily

Word Origin & History

late 14c., "of an original cause; of a thing from which something is derived; not secondary" (a sense now associated with primary), from Old French primitif "very first, original" (14c.) and directly from Latin primitivus "first or earliest of its kind," from primitus "at first," from primus "first" (see prime (adj.)).

Meaning "of or belonging to the first age" is from early 15c. Meaning "having the style of an early or ancient time" is from 1680s. In Christian sense of "adhering to the qualities of the early Church" it is recorded from 1680s. Of untrained artists from 1942. Related: Primitively.

Example Sentences forprimitively

I was unable to be present at the ceremony, which was primitively simple.

In whatever way it may be distributed, the majority will be primitively poor.

On its pages were primitively outlined the features of most of the women of his fiction.

What are we entitled to speak of as peculiarly and primitively Swiss?

Manitou showed itself antagonistic to progress; it was old-fashioned, and primitively agricultural.

This stolon is simply the stalk by which each median bud was primitively attached to the stolon of the first asexual form.

Primitively the Mammalian cerebrum, like that of the lower Vertebrata, is quite smooth.

One of these bones, the propercular, is very constant and is primitively attached along the outer edge of the hyomandibular.

It is formed by a fenestration of a primitively continuous cartilaginous coracoid plate (Hoffmann).

At its posterior extremity it is primitively continuous with the neural tube (fig. 420), as was first shewn by Kowalevsky.

primitively

More words related to primitively

early

originally

primarily

radically