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primitive

/pˈɹɪmətɪv/ · 9 letters · 7 distinct letters

  1. adjective

    belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness

    the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man

  2. adjective

    little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

    archaic forms of life

  3. adjective

    used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies

    primitive societies

  4. noun

    a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

  5. noun

    a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived

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