Textual thesaurus for "primitive"

(adj) archaic

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

(adj) rude, crude

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

(adj) naive

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

(noun) primitive person

a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization