primitive
adjective
[ ˈprɪmɪtɪv ]
• relating to, denoting, or preserving the character of an early stage in the evolutionary or historical development of something.
• "primitive mammals"
Similar:
ancient,
earliest,
first,
prehistoric,
antediluvian,
antique,
primordial,
primeval,
primal,
primary,
lower,
original,
proto-,
ur-,
aboriginal,
indigenous,
autochthonous,
autochthonic,
primigenial,
• very basic or unsophisticated in terms of comfort, convenience, or efficiency.
• "the accommodation at the camp was a bit primitive"
Similar:
crude,
simple,
rough,
basic,
elementary,
rough-hewn,
rudimentary,
undeveloped,
unrefined,
unsophisticated,
rude,
rough and ready,
makeshift,
old-fashioned,
obsolete,
archaic,
• not developed or derived from anything else.
• "primitive material of the universe"
• (of a part or structure) in the first or early stage of formation or growth; rudimentary.
primitive
noun
• a person belonging to a preliterate, non-industrial society.
• "reports of travellers and missionaries described contemporary primitives"
• a pre-Renaissance painter, or one who imitates the pre-Renaissance style.
• a word, base, or root from which another is historically derived.
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘original, not derivative’): from Old French primitif, -ive, from Latin primitivus ‘first of its kind’, from primus ‘first’.
