primitive
[ˈprɪmɪtɪv]
adj
of or belonging to the first or beginning; original
characteristic of an early state, esp in being crude or uncivilized
a primitive dwelling
denoting or relating to a preliterate and nonindustrial social system
of, relating to, or resembling an early stage in the evolutionary development of a particular group of organisms.another word for primordial
showing the characteristics of primitive painters; untrained, childlike, or naive
pertaining to magmas that have experienced only small degrees of fractional crystallization or crystal contamination
of, relating to, or denoting rocks formed in or before the Palaeozoic era
denoting a word from which another word is derived, as for example hope, from which hopeless is derived
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
n
a primitive person or thing
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.a painter of the pre-Renaissance era in European painting.a painter of any era whose work appears childlike or untrained.Also called (for senses 11a, 11c) naive
a work by such an artist
a word or concept from which another word or concept is derived
a curve, function, or other form from which another is derived
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