primitive


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"