Synonym: ancient, barbarous, basic, beginning, elementary, fundamental, native, original, prehistoric, simple, uncivilized. Similar words: diminutive, punitive, positive, cognitive, sensitive, definitive, competitive, initiative. Meaning: ['prɪmɪtɪv] 
n. 1. a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization 2. a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived 3. a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms. adj. 1. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness 2. little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type 3. used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies 4. of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style.
n. 1. a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization 2. a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived 3. a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms. adj. 1. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness 2. little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type 3. used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies 4. of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style. 
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31 Small seashells were once used as a primitive kind of money.
32 Aboriginal art has finally gained recognition and broken away from being labelled as "primitive" or "exotic".
33 The constitution of a primitive society is not necessarily simple.
34 Primitive man made tools from sharp stones and animal bones.
35 But these are primitive feelings and run very deep.
36 They had no meaning for primitive man.
37 No doubt, primitive man had slept in the open.
38 He may use more primitive mechanisms to battle back.
39 Do you know how primitive man generated fire?
40 Primitive, yes, but with great insight(sentencedict.com/primitive.html), great depth.
41 The Waste Land itself functions as a primitive ritual.
42 Of course primitive man was a sun worshipper.
43 Sanitation was primitive and the poorhouses in regular use.
44 Aldersgate Primitive Methodist Magazine, 1915-26, passim.
45 Indeed no native language is primitive.
46 The girl was young, primitive, inarticulate.
47 The ill are no longer ostracized as moral pariahs except by a few remaining primitive tribes ruled by superstition.
48 There are, however, other primitive forms of life that can flourish under such conditions.
49 It seems most likely, in fact, that primitive life arose and was destroyed several times over by very large impacts.
50 The interest in primitive art had come about largely, of course, through the work of Gauguin.
51 It would he hard to imagine a more primitive form of music than stamping on the ground.
52 The maestro breathes new life into the composer's primitive neo-Stravinskian language.
53 Sounds like some primitive existence on an isolated desert isle.
54 Bukharin rejected Preobrazhensky's whole conception of primitive socialist accumulation, and with good cause as we shall see.
55 Latin America is a world where primitive ways of life exist near ultra-modern cities. Altogether, it is a continent full of vitality.
56 Notice the back-to-back houses, the tunnel entrances to the completely enclosed court, and the primitive sanitation.
57 Primitive sensations skittered here and there, triggering twinges of irritation that carelessly boiled away.
58 I know of no primitive people anywhere that either rejects and despises conflict or represents warfare as an absolute evil.
59 The gingerbread house represents an existence based on the most primitive satisfactions.
60 In that infinitely remote time primitive man could Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea.
More similar words: diminutive, punitive, positive, cognitive, sensitive, definitive, competitive, initiative, positively, inquisitive, limit, prime, limited, primary, incriminate, reprimand, proximity, to the limit, primarily, limitation, inimitable, equanimity, discriminate, prima facie, reprimanded, recrimination, indiscriminate, discrimination, mitigate, mitigation.