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Synonyms for PRIMITIVE
ˈprɪm ɪ tɪvprim·i·tive
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
primitive
Aboriginal (Latin ab, from, origo, origin) signifies pertaining to the aborigines or earliest known inhabitants of a country in the widest sense, including not merely human beings but inferior animals and plants as well. Autochthonic (Greek autos, self, and chthōn, earth) signifies sprung from the earth, especially from the soil of one's native land. Primeval (Latin primum, first, and ævum, age), signifies strictly belonging to the first ages, earliest in time, but often only the earliest of which man knows or conceives, immemorial. Aboriginal, autochthonic, and primeval combine the meanings of ancient and original; aboriginal inhabitants, autochthonic races, primeval forests. Prime and primary may signify either first in time, or more frequently first in importance; primary has also the sense of elementary or preparatory; we speak of a prime minister, a primary school. Primal is chiefly poetic, in the sense of prime; as, the primal curse. Primordial is first in an order of succession or development; as, a primordial leaf. Primitive frequently signifies having the original characteristics of that which it represents, as well as standing first in time; as, the primitive church. Primitive also very frequently signifies having the original or early characteristics without remoteness in time. Primeval simplicity is the simplicity of the earliest ages; primitive simplicity may be found in retired villages now. Pristine is an elegant word, used almost exclusively in a good sense of that which is original and perhaps ancient; as, pristine purity, innocence, vigor. That which is both an original and natural product of a soil or country is said to be indigenous; that which is actually produced there is said to be native, though it may be of foreign extraction; humming-birds are indigenous to America; canaries may be native, but are not indigenous. Immemorial refers solely to time, independently of quality, denoting, in legal phrase, "that whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary;" as, an immemorial custom; an immemorial abuse. Compare OLD.
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Synonyms:
aboriginal, ancient, autochthonic, immemorial, indigenous, native, old, original, patriarchal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primordial, pristine, uncreatedAntonyms:
adventitious, exotic, foreign, fresh, late, modern, new, novel, recent
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
primitive
Synonyms:
old-fashioned, primeval, quaint, simple, unsophisticated, archaic, pristineAntonyms:
modern, new-fangled, sophisticated, modish
Princeton's WordNet
primitive, primitive personnoun
a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
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primitive, primitive personprimitivenoun
a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
Synonyms:
primitive personprimitiveadjective
a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
"`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"
Synonyms:
primitive personcrude, primitive, rudeadjective
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"
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bad-mannered, ill-bred, rough, yokelish, primitive, unrefined, rude, crude(a), underbred, rude(a), vulgar, bounderish, archaic, gross, raw, lowbred, naive, stark(a), earthy, crude, unprocessed, blunt, ill-mannered, unmannered, raw(a), unmannerly, natural, uncivilarchaic, primitiveadjective
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"
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archaic, naive, antiquated, primitive, crude, rude, antediluvianprimitiveadjective
used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
"primitive societies"
primitive, naiveadjective
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"
Synonyms:
rude, uninstructed, uninitiate, unenlightened, naive, primitive, archaic, uninitiated, crude, naif
Matched Categories
Dictionary of English Synonymes
primitiveadjective
Synonyms:
primeval, primal, prime, primordial, original, aboriginal, pristine, primary, firstprimitiveadjective
primitiveadjective
Synonyms:
original, primeval, primal, primordial, aboriginal, prime, primary pristine, firstprimitiveadjective
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
primitiveadjective
Synonyms:
pristine, primordial, primeval, primal, antique, quaint, old-fashioned, original, radical, primary
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "primitive":
primitives, primeval, primal, rudimentary, improvised, original, rustic, incivility, pristine, primordial
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#371 | old | |
#691 | original | |
#759 | natural | |
#933 | simple | |
#1243 | primary | |
#2108 | prime | |
#2290 | native | |
#3079 | raw | |
#3283 | ancient | |
#4253 | gross | |
#5548 | rough | |
#6895 | indigenous | |
#7983 | aboriginal | |
#9920 | crude | |
#10591 | primitive | |
#11372 | blunt | |
#12199 | rude | |
#15519 | rustic | |
#18407 | naive | |
#19297 | pristine | |
#20616 | primal | |
#23811 | vulgar | |
#24836 | quaint | |
#25225 | primitives | |
#29875 | archaic | |
#32870 | improvised | |
#36939 | rudimentary | |
#38233 | earthy | |
#38702 | primordial | |
#42969 | patriarchal | |
#49178 | antiquated | |
#49390 | unprocessed | |
#62674 | uninitiated | |
#63365 | primeval | |
#71076 | immemorial | |
#78515 | unsophisticated | |
#84515 | uncivil | |
#88970 | unrefined | |
#113772 | naif | |
#139288 | unenlightened | |
#155230 | antediluvian | |
#158527 | uncreated | |
#171275 | incivility | |
#288760 | uninstructed |
How to use PRIMITIVE in a sentence?
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
A future with automation is the equivalent as the past with primitive technology. It is the abstract factor that will ruin the utmost ambitions of our families' generations. To combat this 'societal plague' is to combat laziness, similar to defending against our negative mentality.
We don't know much about aliens, but we know about humans, if you look at history, contact between humans and less intelligent organisms have often been disastrous from their point of view, and encounters between civilizations with advanced versus primitive technologies have gone badly for the less advanced. A civilization reading one of our messages could be billions of years ahead of us. If so, they will be vastly more powerful, and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria.
But what this animal tells us [is] that actually the last common ancestor of the two groups had lots of bone, so rather than sharks being primitive, sharks are actually very highly evolved in their own way, and just as highly evolved as we are.
Homo naledi remains one of the most enigmatic ancient human relatives ever discovered, it is clearly a primitive species, existing at a time when previously we thought only modern humans were in South Africa. Its very presence at that time and in this place complexifies our understanding of who did what first concerning the invention of complex stone tool cultures and even ritual practices.
Translations for PRIMITIVE
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- بدائيArabic
- primitiuCatalan, Valencian
- primitivníCzech
- primitivGerman
- πρωτόγονοςGreek
- primitivaEsperanto
- primitivoSpanish
- alkeellinenFinnish
- primitifFrench
- primitivoItalian
- 原始的Japanese
- ಪ್ರಾಚೀನKannada
- 원시Korean
- primitivusLatin
- primitiefDutch
- prymitywnyPolish
- primitivo, primitivaPortuguese
- primitivRomanian
- примитивныйRussian
- prȉmitīvanSerbo-Croatian
- பழமையானதுTamil
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