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Meaning of primitive

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  primitive
      adj 1: 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" [syn: {crude},
             {primitive}, {rude}]
      2: 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"
         [syn: {archaic}, {primitive}]
      3: used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies;
         "primitive societies"
      4: 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" [syn: {primitive}, {naive}]
      n 1: a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
           [syn: {primitive}, {primitive person}]
      2: a mathematical expression from which another expression is
         derived
      3: a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms;
         "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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