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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61 Those who accepted Communion from Methodist preachers were known as Primitive Methodists.
62 A primitive form of microscopic life may have existed on Mars billions of years ago.
63 The West, by contrast, assimilated its own primitive peoples very early on.
64 What I say is roughly this: primitive art as we call it, tribal art, is usually very good.
65 In each the primitive, sometimes bestial is joined obdurately to the modern and sophisticated.
66 At first their station buildings were primitive affairs, no more than clearings in the bush with tin huts.
67 They have always refused to place primitive art on the same plane as the work of Western artists.
68 The idea is to set to work without great expense and elaborate machinery, or under primitive conditions.
69 The most primitive representatives are extremely similar to the insectivores.Sentencedict
70 The first primitive forms of life consumed various materials, including hydrogen sulfide, and released oxygen.
71 And they tell us sea fishing is primitive in its thinking.
72 This emphasizes also his primitive appeal to fire as the most destructive force.
73 The most primitive of the armoured mammals are the five species of echidnas, or spiny anteaters, from Australasia.
74 The art work is primitive but the silly little joke is what comics used to be about.
75 Cadence owner Archie Bleyer, however, was not very enthusiastic about the demo of this raw and primitive instrumental.
76 Later, electrically powered calculators and analog computers bridged the gap to the first primitive digital computers.
77 Hence the study of primitive culture is intimately bound up with that of primitive religion.
78 A collection of firefighting crews moved to a primitive airstrip, a strip of grass amid the pines.
79 No doubt there are many humorous possibilities in the comic plight of a primitive boy in a modern major city.
80 Reams of data, miles of magnetic tape, but none of it satisfies even my own primitive appetite for answers.
81 She was absorbed in the primitive ritual of the hunt and work was erased from her mind.
82 Despite the relatively primitive surroundings, the team is delighted to have somewhere warm and dry to perform life-saving operations.
83 Even the most primitive computer can outstrip the human brain in certain types of calculation.
84 This attitude was, of course, purely subjective, and their appreciation of primitive art was almost entirely emotional.
85 He was also concerned with primitive ritual as underlying developed ritual.
86 The whole Southampton setup was a bit too primitive for my liking.
87 Moreover the government is building, at considerable cost, a museum at Quai de Branly devoted to primitive art.
88 Diogenes backed up his theory of the importance of air circulating through the body with some primitive human anatomy.
89 Thus virtually every primitive society divides the children and teaches the sexes separately.
90 I forgot to add that I noticed your primitive brutality also this morning.
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.