| noun | a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization |
| noun | a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived |
| noun | a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms “`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived” |
| adjective | belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness “the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man” |
| adjective | little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type “archaic forms of life” |
| adjective | used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies “primitive societies” |
| adjective | 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” |
| primitive | adjective | little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type |
| crudeness | noun | a wild or unrefined state |
| crudity | noun | a wild or unrefined state |
| primitiveness | noun | a wild or unrefined state |
| rudeness | noun | a wild or unrefined state |
| primitive | noun | a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization |