primitive (
http://definr.com/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,
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]
3: (anthropology; of societies) preliterate or tribal or
nonindustrial; "primitive societies"
4: (fine arts) 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"
n 1: a person who belongs to early stage of civilization [syn: {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"