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Meaning of word primitive from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.

primitive   noun

Meaning : A person who belongs to an early stage of civilization.

Synonyms : primitive person

Meaning : A mathematical expression from which another expression is derived.

Meaning : A word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms.

Example : `pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived.

primitive   adjective

Meaning : 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.

Synonyms : crude, rude

Meaning : 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.

Synonyms : archaic

Meaning : Used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies.

Example : Primitive societies.

Meaning : 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.

Synonyms : naive

Primitive meaning in Bengali (Bangla).