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primitive

a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"

a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived

a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

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:

• Bronze Age man,
• Gothic,
• Hominidae,
• Iron Age man,
• Neanderthal,
• Stone Age man,
• ab ovo,
• abecedarian,
• aboriginal,
• aborigine,
• ancestral,
• ancient,
• animal,
• antediluvian,
• antenatal,
• antepatriarchal,
• anthropoid,
• ape-man,
• archaic,
• atavistic,
• autochthon,
• autochthonous,
• barbarian,
• barbaric,
• barbarous,
• basal,
• basic,
• basilar,
• beginning,
• bestial,
• brutal,
• brutish,
• budding,
• bushman,
• cave dweller,
• caveman,
• central,
• childlike,
• coarse,
• cognate,
• constituent,
• constitutive,
• creative,
• crucial,
• crude,
• derivation,
• derivative,
• doublet,
• earliest,
• earliest inhabitant,
• early,
• elemental,
• elementary,
• embryonic,
• endemic,
• eponym,
• erstwhile,
• essential,
• etymon,
• fetal,
• first,
• first comer,
• fore,
• formative,
• former,
• fossil man,
• foundational,
• fundamental,
• generative,
• genetic,
• germinal,
• gestatory,
• gut,
• homebred,
• homegrown,
• hominid,
• humanoid,
• ill-bred,
• immemorial,
• impolite,
• in embryo,
• in its infancy,
• in ovo,
• in the bud,
• inaugural,
• inceptive,
• inchoate,
• inchoative,
• incipient,
• incunabular,
• indigene,
• indigenous,
• infant,
• infantile,
• initial,
• initiative,
• initiatory,
• introductory,
• inventive,
• late,
• local,
• local yokel,
• man of old,
• material,
• missing link,
• naive,
• nascent,
• natal,
• native,
• native-born,
• noncivilized,
• of the essence,
• old,
• olden,
• once,
• onetime,
• original,
• outlandish,
• parturient,
• past,
• patriarchal,
• persistent,
• postnatal,
• preadamite,
• preglacial,
• pregnant,
• prehistoric,
• prehistoric man,
• prehuman,
• prenatal,
• previous,
• primal,
• primary,
• primate,
• prime,
• primeval,
• primitive settler,
• primogenial,
• primoprimitive,
• primordial,
• prior,
• pristine,
• procreative,
• protogenic,
• protohistoric,
• protohuman,
• quondam,
• radical,
• raw,
• recent,
• root,
• rough,
• rough-and-ready,
• rude,
• rudimental,
• rudimentary,
• savage,
• seminal,
• simple,
• simplistic,
• sometime,
• substantial,
• substantive,
• then,
• troglodyte,
• troglodytic,
• uncivil,
• uncivilized,
• uncombed,
• uncouth,
• uncultivated,
• uncultured,
• underived,
• underlying,
• undeveloped,
• unkempt,
• unlicked,
• unpolished,
• unrefined,
• unschooled,
• unsophisticated,
• untamed,
• untaught,
• untrained,
• untutored,
• ur,
• vernacular,
• wild