primitive

Meanings

Noun

• a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
• a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
• a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
  • "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"

Adjective Satellite

• belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
  • "primitive movies of the 1890s"
  • "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
• little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
  • "primitive mammals"
  • "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
• used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
  • "primitive societies"
• 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"

Synonyms

archaic, crude, naive, primitive person, rude