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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121 At Wanlockhead, to the south, the Straitsteps mine remains include a primitive water-powered beam engine for draining the mine.
122 Her tameness drops away like a spring moult, and her primitive survival instincts supplant everything else.
123 Information technologies were primitive, communication between different locations was slow, and the public work force was relatively uneducated.
124 Ahab is seen as the Pope and the three primitive harpooners are his cardinals who will help him carry out his mission.
125 Along with conventional breeds of lamb, she also rears primitive breeds of that have a stronger flavour.
126 Ishmael suggests that various primitive tribes and various religions have always looked upon the sea as something mysterious and deep.
127 Symptoms of reversion to primitive superstition about death are contemporaneous with Romanticism.
128 This practice has the merit of cutting down expense as well as of checking one's primitive barbaric instincts.
129 To primitive tribes a head, stuck on a pole at the village boundary(Sentencedict.com), averted evil and brought luck.
130 Dealers in primitive, tribal, Oriental art, classical antiquities, and objetsd'art are excluded.
131 Other themes, such as the importance of the shadow to primitive man, flicker through these lines.
132 Painters and sculptors began looking for inspiration in spontaneity and primitive feeling rather than in the lecture halls of traditional learning.
133 In fishing this literally means that the catching sector has been forced back into a more primitive, earlier phase.
134 In him only a little of the primitive is left.
135 Both the Carlist right and the extremist left could later appeal to this primitive rebellion.
136 I take it that some very primitive form of life arose spontaneously on earth from chance combinations of atoms.
137 D Mens t-shirt in white cotton jersey, generously cut and decorated with a primitive fish motif.
138 In the 1980s Jacques Kerchache, a former dealer, collector and connoisseur of primitive art, took up the cudgels again.
139 In Portadown in the late nineteenth century there were two Primitive chapels.
140 They're embarrassed to have such primitive people represent the country to the rest of the world.
141 The Primitive Methodist chapel built in 1871 and closed in 1915 is now used as a house.
142 Almost all anthropologists have followed suit, speaking of primitive cultures as compared with the civilizations that more developed societies have evolved.
143 Berg had, but the computer hardware to manage such complex simulations was extremely expensive and the existing software was primitive.
144 Iii any primitive tribe, rule by male fighters is the most natural form of government.
145 Between the civilized areas, those occupied by primitive peoples are also the domain of wild animals.
146 The primitive church employed mythology to augment and explicate the great truths of the gospel.
147 The law of the survival of the fitted governed not only primitive tribes, but the civilized cultures of the ancient world.
148 Like all primitive peoples they believed in spirits with influence over human life.
149 But once the first primitive, delicate life forms have arisen, these energetic processes become a hazard to them.
150 Preobrazhensky attempted to define some optimum rate of primitive socialist accumulation for the state sector in an abstract manner.
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.