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primitivist

primitivist adjective: exhibiting or practicing primitivism, the advocacy of primitive over refined forms.

Adjective

primitivist (comparative more primitivist, superlative most primitivist)

  1. Exhibiting or practicing primitivism, the advocacy of primitive over refined forms
    • […] they developed a sound that mixed the menace of rockabilly’s primitivist fringe with dark psychedelia and the blunt simplicity of punk.2009 February 6, Ben Sisario, “Lux Interior, 62, Singer in the Punk-Rock Era, Is Dead”, in New York Times

Noun

primitivist (plural primitivists)

  1. A proponent of primitivism.

primitivist meaning in Kannada

primitivist in Kannada

ಪ್ರಾಕ್ತನ, ಅನಾಗರಿಕ, ಪ್ರಾಕ್ತನವಾದಿ, ಪುರಾತನವಾದದ್ದು, ಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠವೆಂದು ನಂಬುವವ

Forms of primitivist

Adjective
comparativemore primitivist
superlativemost primitivist
Noun
pluralprimitivists

Origin of primitivist

From primitive + -ist.

Words formed from primitivist

Questions about primitivist

What does primitivist mean?
Primitivist means exhibiting or practicing primitivism, the advocacy of primitive over refined forms.
What is primitivist in Kannada?
Primitivist in Kannada is ಪ್ರಾಕ್ತನ, ಅನಾಗರಿಕ, ಪ್ರಾಕ್ತನವಾದಿ. See Primitivist meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is primitivist?
Primitivist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near primitivist in the dictionary

  1. primitiveness
  2. primitivenesses
  3. primitives
  4. primitivism
  5. primitivisms
  6. primitivist
  7. primitivistic
  8. primitivistically
  9. primitivists
  10. primitivities
  11. primitivity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: primitivist (page history and authors); primitivist (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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