1. primitive

adjective. ['ˈprɪmətɪv, ˈprɪmɪtɪv'] belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness.

Rhymes with Primitive

• alternative
• captive
• causative
• causative
• cognitive
• collaborative
• collaborative
• collective
• combative
• commemorative
• commemorative
• communicative
• comparative
• conductive
• congestive
• connective
• constructive
• consultative
• contemplative
• contraceptive

How do you pronounce primitive?

Pronounce primitive as ˈprɪmɪtɪv.

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How do you spell primitive? Is it primative ?

A common misspelling of primitive is primative

Sentences with primitive

1. Adjective
Fungi are primitive organisms belonging to one of the five kingdoms of life that inhabit the earth.

2. Noun, singular or mass
Lake Delancy East offers 29 primitive sites for tents or small campers.

Quotes about primitive

1. You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?
- Mark Twain

2. One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
- Albert Einstein

3. The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.
- Albert Einstein

2. primitive

adjective. ['ˈprɪmətɪv, ˈprɪmɪtɪv'] little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type.

3. primitive

adjective. ['ˈprɪmətɪv, ˈprɪmɪtɪv'] used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies.

4. primitive

noun. ['ˈprɪmətɪv, ˈprɪmɪtɪv'] a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms.

5. primitive

noun. ['ˈprɪmətɪv, ˈprɪmɪtɪv'] a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization.

6. primitive

noun. ['ˈprɪmətɪv, ˈprɪmɪtɪv'] a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived.

7. primitive

adjective. ['ˈprɪmətɪv, ˈprɪmɪtɪv'] of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style.