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"word": "backwards"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "primitive ideas",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Crude, obsolete."
],
"links": [
[
"Crude",
"crude"
],
[
"obsolete",
"obsolete"
]
]
},
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "derivative"
},
{
"word": "derived"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Grammar"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "a primitive verb",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1831, Noah Webster, Rudiments of English Grammar; Being an Abridgment of the Improved Grammar of the English Language, New-Haven, page 6",
"text": "Division of words. Words are primitive or radical, and derivative or compound.\nOf primitive words. Primitive or radical words are such as cannot be divided, or separated into parts which are significant; as man, hope, bless.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Original; primary; radical; not derived."
],
"links": [
[
"grammar",
"grammar"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(grammar) Original; primary; radical; not derived."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "radical"
}
],
"topics": [
"grammar",
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Biology"
],
"glosses": [
"Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution."
],
"links": [
[
"biology",
"biology"
],
[
"evolution",
"evolution"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(biology) Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution."
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"natural-sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Mathematics"
],
"glosses": [
"Not derived from another of the same type"
],
"links": [
[
"mathematics",
"mathematics"
],
[
"derived",
"derived"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mathematics) Not derived from another of the same type"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "imprimitive"
}
],
"topics": [
"mathematics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English dated terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Linguistics"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1933, Leonard Bloomfield, Language, Henry Holt, page 13",
"text": "We infer that other groups of related languages, such as the Germanic (or the Slavic or the Celtic), which show a similar resemblance, have arisen in the same way; it is only an accident of history that for these groups we have no written records of the earlier state of the language, as it was spoken before the differentiation set in. To these unrecorded languages we give names like Primitive Germanic (Primitive Slavic, Primitive Celtic, and so on).",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"most recent common ancestor (often hypothetical) of"
],
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics, dated) most recent common ancestor (often hypothetical) of"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "proto-"
}
],
"tags": [
"dated"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹɪmɪtɪv/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪmɪtɪv"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-primitive.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cb/En-us-primitive.ogg/En-us-primitive.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/En-us-primitive.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "primative"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity",
"word": "prymitywny"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"primitive"
],
"word": "primitive"
}
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