'primitive' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'primitive' with 6 example sentences.
- primitive adjective
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: belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
: little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
: used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
: of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
- primitive noun
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: a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
: a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
: a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
Primitive calculating machines existed long before computers were developed.
This is a fairly primitive website.
When the boys go camping, they enjoy living in a primitive way.
At that time a primitive people lived there.
The rioters were like animals in the grip of a primitive frenzy.
He contends that primitive life once existed on Mars.