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Adjective primitive has 4 senses
- crude, primitive, rude - 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"
Antonyms: late, later (indirect, via early)
- archaic, primitive - 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"
Antonyms: late, later (indirect, via early)
- primitive - used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies"
Antonyms: civilized, civilised (indirect, via noncivilized)
- primitive - 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"
Antonym: trained (indirect, via untrained)
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