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primitive   (TTS Sound)

The noun primitive has 3 senses

• primitive, primitive person -- (a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization)


• primitive -- (a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived)


• primitive -- (a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived")

The adj primitive has 4 senses

• crude, primitive, rude -- (belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains")


• archaic, primitive -- (little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe")


• primitive -- (used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies")


• primitive, naive -- (of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style; "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking")