primitive
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(s) 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
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(s) 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
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(s) used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
- primitive societies
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(s) 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
Nouns
- (n) a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization primitive person,
- (n) a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
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(n) a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
- "pick" is the primitive from which "picket" is derived