Meaning : A person who belongs to an early stage of civilization.
Synonyms : primitive person
Meaning : A mathematical expression from which another expression is derived.
Meaning : A word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms.
Example :
`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived.
Meaning : Belonging to an early stage of technical development. Characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness.
Example :
The crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man.
Primitive movies of the 1890s.
Primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains.
Meaning : Little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type.
Example :
Archaic forms of life.
Primitive mammals.
The okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe.
Synonyms : archaic
Meaning : Used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies.
Example :
Primitive societies.
Meaning : Of or created by one without formal training. Simple or naive in style.
Example :
Primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking.
Synonyms : naive
Primitive meaning in Telugu.