English to English
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church.
source: Webster 1913
noun
- a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
source: WordNet 3.0
- a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
source: WordNet 3.0
- a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived.
source: WordNet 3.0
- An original or primary word; a word not derived from another; -- opposed to derivative.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
Primitive societies.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
English to Tagalog
adv
- [prímitiv] Una
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
