a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
[ Syn: primitive person ]
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'
primitive (n.)
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
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
[ Syn: archaic ]
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
[ Syn: naive ]