Meanings
comparative more primitively · superlative most primitively
- In a primitive manner.
Peter had been an adept with tilts, as old Stein had said so often that morning, while he, Palmer, and Gus, had dubiously laboured at this elusive task. But Peter would rig no more tilts, and primitively old Stein and Gus lamented this, as they missed his services.
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 253
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbwith reference to the origin or beginning
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Catalan primitivament
- primitivamentin a primitive manner
Portuguese primitivamente
- primitivamentein a primitive manner
Spanish primitivamente
- primitivamentein a primitive manner
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