Words with a similar base: primitive, primitive_person

'primitive'
[primitive.n.01] as in: a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization



'primitive'
[primitive.n.02] as in: a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived


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'primitive'
[primitive.n.03] as in: a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms


Examples:
`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived


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'primitive'
[crude.s.03] as in: belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness


Examples:
the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man
primitive movies of the 1890s
primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains



'primitive'
[archaic.s.02] as in: little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type


Examples:
archaic forms of life
primitive mammals
the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe



'primitive'
[primitive.s.03] as in: used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies


Examples:
primitive societies



'primitive'
[primitive.s.04] as in: of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style


Examples:
primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking



					

primitive (English)
└── primitif (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
└── primitivus (Latin)


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