Aboriginal vs Evitative - What's the difference?
aboriginal | evitative |
First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.
* 1814 , , The Excursion , Longman et al. (publishers), [http://books.google.com/books?id=T18JAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA277&dq=aboriginal page 277]:
Living in a land before colonization by the Europeans.
(Aboriginal)
An animal or plant native to a region.
* Charles Darwin
(Aboriginal)
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(grammar) Expressing the notion that something is avoided or feared (as in some Australian Aboriginal languages).
As adjectives the difference between aboriginal and evitative
is that aboriginal is first according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive while evitative is expressing the notion that something is avoided or feared (as in some Australian Aboriginal languages).As a noun aboriginal
is an animal or plant native to a region.As a proper noun Aboriginal
is any of the native languages spoken by Australian aborigines.aboriginal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers.
Synonyms
* (indigenous to a place) native, indigenous, autochthonous, endemic, original, first, earliest, primitive, ancient, primordial, primevalDerived terms
* aboriginality * aboriginallyNoun
(en noun)- It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands.