primitive

[ˈprɪmɪtɪv]

adj

of or belonging to the first or beginning; original

characteristic of an early state, esp in being crude or uncivilized

a primitive dwelling

denoting or relating to a preliterate and nonindustrial social system

of, relating to, or resembling an early stage in the evolutionary development of a particular group of organisms.another word for primordial

showing the characteristics of primitive painters; untrained, childlike, or naive

pertaining to magmas that have experienced only small degrees of fractional crystallization or crystal contamination

of, relating to, or denoting rocks formed in or before the Palaeozoic era

denoting a word from which another word is derived, as for example hope, from which hopeless is derived

of, relating to, or associated with a minority group that breaks away from a sect, denomination, or Church in order to return to what is regarded as the original simplicity of the Gospels

a primitive person or thing

an artist whose work does not conform to traditional, academic, or avant-garde standards of Western painting, such as a painter from an African or Oceanic civilization.a painter of the pre-Renaissance era in European painting.a painter of any era whose work appears childlike or untrained.Also called (for senses 11a, 11c) naive

a work by such an artist

a word or concept from which another word or concept is derived

a curve, function, or other form from which another is derived