| primitive [a] |
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| 1) | 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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| Synonyms : | crude rude |
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| early |
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| 2) | 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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| Synonyms : | archaic |
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| early |
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| 3) | used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies" |
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| noncivilised anthropology |
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| 4) | 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" |
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| untrained beaux_arts |
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| primitive [n] |
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| 1) | a person who belongs to early stage of civilization |
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| Synonyms : | primitive_person |
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| human aryan aborigine basket_maker cave_dweller heidelberg_man homo_erectus ape-man mound_builder piltdown_hoax barbarian feral_man |
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| 2) | a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived |
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| expression |
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| 3) | a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived" |
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| word |
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