primitive, adj.
freq. cnt. 11
freq. cnt. 11
belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 8 freq. cnt.: 8
crude primitive rude
sample sentences
"the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man""primitive movies of the 1890s"
"primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
similar to
little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2
archaic primitive
sample sentences
"archaic forms of life""primitive mammals"
"the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
similar to
used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
primitive
sample sentences
"primitive societies"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
<adj.all>
naive primitive