English-Dutch translations for primitive

• primitief
  Zowel de mijn als de centrale waren onvoorstelbaar primitief, en ik weet waar ik het over heb, want mijn familie werkte in de jaren "50 zelf in de Britse mijnen. Both were extremely primitive and I speak as someone whose family were coalminers in the United Kingdom in the 1950s.
  De postkoloniale tijd van het land werd grotendeels gedomineerd door presidentieel totalitarisme, waarbij de heersers van het land werden gesteund door het leger, al was dat tamelijk primitief. Its post-colonial period was largely dominated by presidential totalitarianism, with its rulers being backed by its admittedly rather primitive army.
  President Bush en zijn regering hebben bewezen hoe primitief en populistisch ze zijn, net zoals we gevreesd hadden. I think we have to acknowledge that Mr Bush and his administration have shown themselves to be just as primitive and populist as might have been feared.

Definition of primitive

• An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to
• A simple-minded person
• Any of the simplest elements available in a programming language
• A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative
• Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first
• Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity
• Crude, obsolete
• Original; primary; radical; not derived
• Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution
• most recent common ancestor of

Synonyms

• radical

Examples

• primitive innocence;   the primitive church
• a primitive style of dress
• primitive ideas
• a primitive verb

Related words

• primitiveness
• primitively
• primitive type
• Primitive Irish
• primitive root
• primitive element
• primitive polynomial
• primitive state
• primitive art