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English

1. 🔊 used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
   “primitive societies”
2. 🔊 of or created by one without formal training
   “primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking”
3. 🔊 little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
   “archaic forms of life”
4. 🔊 belonging to an early stage of technical development
   “the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man”
5. 🔊 a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
   “`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived”
6. 🔊 a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
7. 🔊 a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

Spanish

1. 🔊 primitivo primitive
2. 🔊 primigenio primitive, original

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