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14 Definitions of: primitive

1. adjective, of or belonging to the first or beginning; original
2. adjective, characteristic of an early state, esp in being crude or uncivilized
3. adjective, anthropol denoting or relating to a preliterate and nonindustrial social system
4. adjective, biology a) of, relating to, or resembling an early stage in the evolutionary development of a particular group of organisms b)another word for primordial
5. adjective, showing the characteristics of primitive painters; untrained, childlike, or naive
6. adjective, geology pertaining to magmas that have experienced only small degrees of fractional crystallization or crystal contamination
7. adjective, of, relating to, or denoting rocks formed in or before the Palaeozoic era
8. adjective, denoting a word from which another word is derived, as for example hope, from which hopeless is derived
9. adjective, Protestant theol of, relating to, or associated with a minority group that breaks away from a sect, denomination, or Church in order to return to what is regarded as the original simplicity of the Gospels
10. noun, a primitive person or thing
11. noun, a) an artist whose work does not conform to traditional, academic, or avant-garde standards of Western painting, such as a painter from an African or Oceanic civilization b) a painter of the pre-Renaissance era in European painting c) a painter of any era whose work appears childlike or untrained. Also called (for senses 11a, 11c): naive
12. noun, a work by such an artist
13. noun, a word or concept from which another word or concept is derived
14. noun, maths a curve, function, or other form from which another is derived
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Synonyms:	uncivilized, savage, barbarian, barbaric, early, first, original, primary, elementary, pristine	And more...
Antonyms:	civilized, modern, sophisticated, elaborate

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