1. Not derived from something else; primary or basic. 2. Of or relating to an earliest or original stage or state; primeval. 3. Being little evolved from an early ancestral type. 4. rude 5. primitive societies. 6. is derived. 7. primitive Germanic. 8. An algebraic or geometric expression from which another expression is derived. 9. primitive passions. 10. Of or created by an artist without formal training; simple or naive in style. 11. Of or relating to the work of an artist from a nonindustrial, often tribal culture, especially a culture that is characterized by a low level of economic complexity. 12. Of or relating to late medieval or pre-Renaissance European painters or sculptors. 13. Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution. 14. A person belonging to a nonindustrial, often tribal society, especially a society characterized by a low level of economic complexity. 15. An unsophisticated person. 16. One that is at a low or early stage of development. 17. One belonging to an early stage in the development of an artistic trend, especially a painter of the pre-Renaissance period. 18. An artist having or affecting a simple, direct, unschooled style, as of painting. 19. A self-taught artist. 20. A work of art created by a primitive artist. 21. A word or word element from which another word is derived by morphological or historical processes or from which inflected forms are derived. 22. A basic or fundamental unit of machine instruction or translation.
