- crude, primitive, rude - 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"
Antonyms: late, later (indirect, via early)
- archaic, primitive - 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"
Antonyms: late, later (indirect, via early)
- primitive - used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies"
Antonyms: civilized, civilised (indirect, via noncivilized)
- primitive - 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"
Antonym: trained (indirect, via untrained)
- primitive, primitive person - a person who belongs to early stage of civilization
--1 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
--1 has particulars: - primitive - a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
--2 is a kind of formula, expression
- primitive - a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"
--3 is a kind of word
- primitive - a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"