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primitive

 
Adjective primitive has 4 senses
  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. primitive - used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies"
    Antonyms: civilized, civilised (indirect, via noncivilized)
  4. 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)
Noun primitive has 3 senses
  1. primitive, primitive person - a person who belongs to early stage of civilization
    --1 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
    --1 has particulars:
     Aryan, Indo-European; aborigine; Basket Maker; caveman, cave man, cave dweller, troglodyte; Heidelberg man, Homo heidelbergensis; homo erectus; missing link, ape-man; Mound Builder; Piltdown man, Piltdown hoax; savage, barbarian; wild man, feral man
  2. primitive - a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
    --2 is a kind of formula, expression
  3. primitive - a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"
    --3 is a kind of word
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