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English to English adjective
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Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness | | Example: 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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little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type | | Example: archaic forms of life
primitive mammals
the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe
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used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies | | Example: primitive societies
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of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style | | Example: primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking
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a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization | | source: wordnet30
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a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived | | source: wordnet30
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a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms | | Example: `pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived
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An original or primary word; a word not derived from another; -- opposed to derivative. | | source: webster1913
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