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neoprimitive

neoprimitive adjective: related to the neoprimitivism movement.

Adjective

neoprimitive (comparative more neoprimitive, superlative most neoprimitive)

  1. Related to the neoprimitivism movement.
    • Perhaps an equivalent influence on Davies is the movie The Night of the Hunter and its arsenal of neoprimitive, childlike imagery and rural, homespun folk poetry--its starry skies and oversized moon, its troubled Christianity, its lyricized and almost generic treatment of madness, its period street...1996 April 5, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “These Magic Moments”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of neoprimitive

comparativemore neoprimitive
superlativemost neoprimitive

Origin of neoprimitive

From neo- + primitive.

Questions about neoprimitive

What does neoprimitive mean?
Neoprimitive means related to the neoprimitivism movement.
What part of speech is neoprimitive?
Neoprimitive is an adjective.

Words near neoprimitive in the dictionary

  1. neopragmatist
  2. neopragmatists
  3. neoprags
  4. neoprene
  5. neoprenes
  6. neoprimitive
  7. neoprimitivism
  8. neoprimitivisms
  9. neoprimitivist
  10. neoprimitivists
  11. neoprioniodiform

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