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a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick'' is the primitive from which `picket'' is derived"
a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
a person who belongs to early stage of civilization
used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies" noncivilized
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" untrained
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" early
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 mo early


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