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preprimitive

preprimitive adjective: before a primitive age.

Adjective

preprimitive (not comparable)

  1. Before a primitive age.
    • The Stony Hill Cemetery, lying beyond the “heavily wooded areas of maple oak,” remains in an essentially preprimitive state.2009, Ana Lucia Araujo, Living History: Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery, page 73
    • […]John Smith remarked them as he coasted by / Dangling their legs and fishing off a wharf / At the Isles of Shoals, and satisfied himself
      They weren't Red Indians but veritable
      Pre-primitives of the white race, dawn people,
      Like those who furnished Adam's sons with wives; […]2019 October 8, Robert Frost, A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost (Leather-bound Classics), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN
  2. Of a variety: not itself primitive, but whose proper subvarieties are all primitive.

Origin of preprimitive

From pre- + primitive.

Questions about preprimitive

What does preprimitive mean?
Preprimitive means before a primitive age.
What part of speech is preprimitive?
Preprimitive is an adjective.

Words near preprimitive in the dictionary

  1. preprices
  2. prepricing
  3. preprimaries
  4. preprimary
  5. preprimed
  6. preprimitive
  7. preprint
  8. preprint server
  9. preprint servers
  10. preprinted
  11. preprinting

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