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relating to human society at a very early stage of development, with people living in a simple way without machines or a writing system: Primitive races colonized these islands 2,000 years ago. primitive man. The spiny anteater is a mammal, although a very primitive one.
1. a. : not derived : original, primary. b. : assumed as a basis. especially : axiomatic. primitive concepts. 2. a. : of or relating to the earliest age or period : primeval. the primitive church. b. : closely approximating an early ancestral type : little evolved. primitive mammals. c.
Primitive definition: being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world. See examples of PRIMITIVE used in a sentence.
If you describe something as primitive, you mean that it is very simple in style or very old-fashioned. The conditions are primitive by any standards. The primitive surgery of those days left him virtually deaf in one ear.
being or occurring at an early stage of development. adjective. used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies. “ primitive societies” synonyms: noncivilised, noncivilized. not having a high state of culture and social development. noun. a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization. synonyms: primitive person. see more.
adj. 1. a. Of or relating to an early or original stage or state; primeval: life in the primitive ocean. b. Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution: fossils of primitive angiosperms from the Cretaceous Period. c. Having developed early in the evolutionary history of a group: Hair is a primitive trait of mammals.
Definition of primitive adjective in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
primitives. A person belonging to a nonindustrial, often tribal society, especially a society characterized by a low level of economic or technological complexity. A primitive person or thing. An artist or a work of art that shows ingenuousness and lack of formal training.
primitive meaning, definition, what is primitive: belonging to a simple way of life that e...: Learn more.
very simple and old-fashioned, especially when something is also not convenient and comfortable synonym crude. The methods of communication used during the war were primitive by today's standards. The facilities on the campsite were very primitive. Transport remained very primitive.
