primitive

Adjective

• 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
    

• used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
  • primitive societies
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

Noun

• a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
  • `pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived
    

• a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived

• a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  naive , archaic , crude , rude , primitive person