primitive

Plural: primitives

Noun

• a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
• a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
• a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
  • "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"
• An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
• A member of a primitive society.
• A simple-minded person.
• A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
• Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language.
• A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
• A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.

Adjective Satellite

• belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
  • "primitive movies of the 1890s"
  • "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
• little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
  • "primitive mammals"
  • "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
• used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
  • "primitive societies"
• 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"

Adj

• Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
• Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
• Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
• Relating to an art style characterized by asymmetrical shapes and faded colors.
• Crude, obsolete.
• Original; primary; radical; not derived.
• Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
• Not derived from another of the same type
• most recent common ancestor (often hypothetical) of

Examples

• a primitive style of dress
• a primitive verb
• I used primitive hearts to decorate the quilt.
• primitive ideas
• primitive innocence; the primitive church

Synonyms

archaic, crude, naive, primitive person, rude, backwards, imprimitive, primitive word, proto-, radical, radical word

Antonyms

derivative, derived

Anagrams of primitive