Pristine: alternatives and connections

First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America.

The earliest period in geological period, extending up to the Lower Silurian. It includes an Azoic age, previous to the appearance of…

Of or pertaining to the earliest Stone age; -- applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic age.

extinct primitive toothed bird of the Jurassic period having a long feathered tail and hollow bones; usually considered the most primi…

Like or belonging to the earliest forms of animal life.

A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as…

The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remot…

Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.

Mildness and suavity of manners; courtesy between equals; friendly civility; as, comity of manners; the comity of States.

Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called…

The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race.

An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy…

An original form; primitive word; root.

Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive.

Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.

Renewed in vigor, alacrity, or readiness for action; as, fresh for a combat; hence, tending to renew in vigor; rather strong; cool or…

A primeval larval form; a double-walled sac from which, according to the hypothesis of Haeckel, man and all other animals, that in the…

Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude.