English-Swedish translations for primitive

• primitiv
  De fortsätter alla att tillämpa den primitiva och avskyvärda metoden med dödsstraffet.They continue to share a primitive and abominable practice: the death penalty.
  Terroristattacker står för en övergång från rättsstatsprincipen till en primitiv stat.Terrorist attacks represent a move from the rule of law to a primitive state.
  Den här typen av slakt är snarare ociviliserade och primitiva folkslags sedvänja, och inget vi bör acceptera.Such slaughter is, rather, a custom of savage and primitive tribes, and we should not agree to it.
• antiderivata en

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