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Meanings of
primitively
in English
Portuguese
originalmente
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With reference to the origin or beginning.
originally
in the beginning
Portuguese
originalmente
Usage of
primitively
in English
1
Andrew found the work deeply, almost
primitively
satisfying: moving stone, making hedge.
2
Even in his faults he had ever been
primitively
simple and obvious.
3
Manitou showed itself antagonistic to progress; it was old-fashioned, and
primitively
agricultural.
4
Roger leaped
primitively
to grapple and break his enemy with bare hands.
5
The crosses were wooden and
primitively
made, the graves surrounded by stones.
6
I was unable to be present at the ceremony, which was
primitively
simple.
7
Neodjuvant chemotherapy has been
primitively
used in locally advanced breast cancer.
8
The success of this new but still
primitively
crude class of apparatus was immediate.
9
Preparations for bed are simple in the mountains-theywere
primitively
simple for me that night.
10
The facility had a base headquarters and five satellite training areas, all of them
primitively
equipped.
11
On its pages were
primitively
outlined the features of most of the women of his fiction.
12
That's a
primitively
feminine wish and not at all in accordance with my own advanced ideas.
13
How could she be less
primitively
honest in the face of one than of the other?
14
She was lovely and tender, but
primitively
firm.
15
What could there be in common between the sophisticated Eglington and this sweet,
primitively
wholesome Quaker girl?
16
He was a Caliban-like creature,
primitively
ugly, with a mop of hair that had never been combed.
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primitively
Adverb
Frequent collocations
primitively simple
consist primitively
deal primitively
primitively agricultural
primitively appealing
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Translations for
primitively
Portuguese
originalmente
Primitively
through the time