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primitive in WordNet English dictionary
adjective- little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
"archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
archaic primitive
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
"the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
crude primitive rude
- of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
"primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking"
primitive naive
- used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
"primitive societies"
primitive
noun- a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
"`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"
primitive
- a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
primitive
- a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
primitive primitive person
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