eng: primitive

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Meaning
means	(noun) a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization primitive, primitive person
means	(noun) a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived primitive
means	(noun) a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived" primitive
means	(adjective) 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 mountains" crude, rude, primitive
means	(adjective) 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" archaic, primitive
means	(adjective) used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies" primitive
means	(adjective) 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, naive