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- Definition
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- primitive :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
- 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
- primitive :a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
- `pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived
- primitive :used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
- 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
- primitive :a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
- primitive :a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived