• a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick'' is the Primitive from which `picket'' is derived"
• a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
• a person who belongs to early stage of civilization
• used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "Primitive societies"
• 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"
• 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 mo
• 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"

'Primitive' in other languages