Synonyms for Primitive:

• adj.

  •aboriginal (adjective)
  • endemic,
  • primitive,
  • ancient.
  •all (adjective)
  • rude.
  •amateur (adjective)
  • incompetent,
  • novice,
  • unskilled,
  • nonprofessional,
  • inexperienced,
  • unprofessional,
  • amateur.
  •antediluvian (adjective)
  • antiquated,
  • obsolete,
  • venerable,
  • hoary,
  • antique,
  • timeworn,
  • age-old.
  •antiquarian (adjective)
  • aged.
  •archaic (adjective)
  • olden,
  • outmoded,
  • superannuated,
  • bygone.
  •austere (adjective)
  • clean,
  • bald,
  • bleak,
  • dour,
  • unadorned,
  • stark,
  • spare,
  • spartan,
  • plain,
  • bare,
  • vanilla,
  • severe,
  • subdued,
  • unembellished.
  •barbarian (adjective)
  • brutal,
  • lowbrow,
  • merciless,
  • untamed,
  • boorish,
  • inhuman,
  • uncivil,
  • coarse,
  • vicious,
  • cruel,
  • vulgar,
  • uncouth,
  • philistine.
  •barbaric (adjective)
  • graceless,
  • tasteless.
  •barbarous (adjective)
  • wicked,
  • more wolfish,
  • in humane,
  • in-humane,
  • more brutish,
  • monstrous,
  • most wolfish,
  • most brutish.
  •basic (adjective)
  • in-dispensable,
  • sub stratal,
  • more necessary,
  • more substratal,
  • most substratal,
  • in dispensable,
  • substratal,
  • sub-stratal.
  •benighted (adjective)
  • un-learned.
  •cannibalistic (adjective)
  • more anthropophagous,
  • most anthropophagous.
  •colonial (adjective)
  • newest,
  • more pilgrim,
  • de pendent,
  • more dominion,
  • most immigrant,
  • Outland,
  • more immigrant,
  • more emigrant,
  • un settled,
  • most emigrant,
  • more outland,
  • de-pendent,
  • most frontier,
  • most dominion,
  • more frontier,
  • trans planted,
  • pre revolutionary,
  • pre-revolutionary,
  • more prerevolutionary,
  • more transplanted,
  • most pilgrim,
  • most transplanted,
  • trans-planted,
  • most outland,
  • most prerevolutionary,
  • un-settled.
  •crude (adjective)
  • most unproficient,
  • un worked,
  • more rough hewn,
  • un-polished,
  • more unwrought,
  • un-taught,
  • most unmilled,
  • most ungraded,
  • most prentice,
  • rough hewn,
  • out-line,
  • more rough-hewn,
  • more unmatured,
  • un matured,
  • impure,
  • most unworked,
  • more unsorted,
  • un wrought,
  • in expert,
  • most rough hewn,
  • un finished,
  • more roughhewn,
  • un milled,
  • most outline,
  • un graded,
  • most unwrought,
  • un-milled,
  • roughhewn,
  • in-expert,
  • rough-hewn,
  • un-finished,
  • un-worked,
  • unmatured,
  • most roughhewn,
  • in rough,
  • more outline,
  • un-sorted,
  • un-graded,
  • most unmatured,
  • un formed,
  • un-proficient,
  • more prentice,
  • un proficient,
  • un-wrought,
  • un prepared,
  • un taught,
  • un-prepared,
  • un polished,
  • most rough-hewn,
  • more unmilled,
  • un-trained,
  • untaught,
  • most unsorted,
  • un trained,
  • un-formed,
  • out line,
  • un sorted,
  • more ungraded,
  • more unworked,
  • un-matured,
  • more unproficient.
  •early (adjective)
  • Proleptical,
  • a bit previous,
  • prevenient.
  •elementary (adjective)
  • more abecedarian,
  • un complex,
  • most primo,
  • child play,
  • more abcs,
  • be-ginning,
  • more foundational,
  • more simplex,
  • uncomplicated,
  • most foundational,
  • meat potatoes,
  • most beginning,
  • most abecedarian,
  • most abcs,
  • most simplex,
  • be ginning,
  • most uncomplex,
  • more uncomplex,
  • un-complicated,
  • un-complex,
  • preliminary,
  • un complicated,
  • more beginning,
  • childs play,
  • more primo.
  •essential (adjective)
  • more nitty-gritty,
  • deepseated,
  • in born,
  • nitty-gritty,
  • name game,
  • in-born,
  • most nitty gritty,
  • most ideal,
  • deep seated,
  • name the game,
  • more nittygritty,
  • nittygritty,
  • most nittygritty,
  • in-bred,
  • nubbest,
  • in bred,
  • more nitty gritty,
  • most nitty-gritty.
  •fierce (adjective)
  • fellest,
  • tumultous-tumultuous,
  • most howling,
  • raging,
  • apest,
  • murderous,
  • in tenser,
  • in-tenser,
  • feller,
  • most flipped,
  • Flipped,
  • more tigerish,
  • more howling,
  • more flipped,
  • most tigerish,
  • howling,
  • tumultous tumultuous,
  • in-tensest,
  • un-controllable,
  • un controllable,
  • enraged,
  • tumultoustumultuous,
  • in tense,
  • venomous,
  • in-tense.
  •first (adjective)
  • in augural,
  • more inaugural,
  • most opening,
  • head most,
  • in-augural,
  • in beginning,
  • more ahead,
  • most inaugural,
  • most ahead,
  • head-most,
  • incipient,
  • more primogenial,
  • most headmost,
  • more opening,
  • more headmost,
  • right front,
  • most primogenial.
  •fundamental (adjective)
  • more bottom-line,
  • more underived,
  • fundamental,
  • more bottom line,
  • more grass-roots,
  • most grass roots,
  • more axiological,
  • most sustaining,
  • most meat and potatoes,
  • most fundamental,
  • most grass-roots,
  • more substrative,
  • more sustaining,
  • bottomline,
  • more grassroots,
  • most bottomline,
  • more meat-and-potatoes,
  • most underived,
  • grass-roots,
  • more meat and potatoes,
  • grassroots,
  • most axiological,
  • most meat-and-potatoes,
  • un-derived,
  • most grassroots,
  • para-mount,
  • para mount,
  • most substrative,
  • more grass roots,
  • grass roots,
  • most bottom line,
  • more bottomline,
  • most bottom-line,
  • un derived.
  •idolatrous (adjective)
  • heathen.
  •indigenous (adjective)
  • more unacquired,
  • most unacquired,
  • most chthonic,
  • un-acquired,
  • un acquired,
  • more chthonic.
  •medieval (adjective)
  • feudal,
  • most feudal,
  • un enlightened,
  • un-enlightened,
  • more feudal.
  •native (adjective)
  • be longing,
  • most belonging,
  • be-longing,
  • more belonging,
  • more from,
  • national,
  • re-lated,
  • most from.
  •natural (adjective)
  • more uncontrived,
  • un-worldlier,
  • laidback,
  • un studied,
  • un-feigned,
  • un labored,
  • folksy,
  • more up front,
  • most unlabored,
  • Undesigning,
  • most up-front,
  • un contrived,
  • more up-front,
  • un-designing,
  • most unassumed,
  • un feigned,
  • more undesigning,
  • most unembarrassed,
  • most undesigning,
  • most up front,
  • un worldlier,
  • more inartificial,
  • un-worldliest,
  • un worldly,
  • more simplehearted,
  • more unlabored,
  • un-contrived,
  • un embarrassed,
  • un-pretentious,
  • un-worldly,
  • un forced,
  • un-studied,
  • un-embarrassed,
  • un schooled,
  • un-assumed,
  • more upfront,
  • more unembarrassed,
  • in-nocent,
  • most upfront,
  • in-artificial,
  • most uncontrived,
  • un designing,
  • in nocent,
  • more unassumed,
  • un assumed,
  • most simplehearted,
  • un-schooled,
  • un-forced,
  • in artificial,
  • most inartificial,
  • un-labored,
  • un worldliest.
  •old (adjective)
  • castoff,
  • wornout,
  • of yore,
  • cast-off,
  • elderly,
  • oldfangled,
  • of old,
  • paleolithic,
  • time-worn.
  •old-fashioned (adjective)
  • more old hat,
  • behind times,
  • more demoded,
  • un stylish,
  • out it,
  • of old school,
  • most oldhat,
  • more out of style,
  • most old hat,
  • more outworn,
  • dis-approved,
  • most outworn,
  • most old fangled,
  • vintage,
  • out style,
  • more disapproved,
  • out worn,
  • un-stylish,
  • old fangled,
  • most old-hat,
  • more oldhat,
  • most out of style,
  • most demoded,
  • more old-fangled,
  • more old fangled,
  • out-worn,
  • most out-of-style,
  • more unstylish,
  • most disapproved,
  • of olden days,
  • oldhat,
  • more old-hat,
  • dis approved,
  • most old-fangled,
  • most unstylish,
  • out dated,
  • more out-of-style.
  •olden (adjective)
  • old as the hills,
  • old as hills.
  •organic (adjective)
  • more anatomical,
  • bio logical,
  • more amoebic,
  • more biotic,
  • most cellular,
  • most anatomical,
  • more plasmic,
  • most amoebic,
  • more cellular,
  • bio-logical,
  • most plasmic,
  • more nuclear,
  • most biotic,
  • most nuclear.
  •original (adjective)
  • underivative,
  • First-hand.
  •passe (adjective)
  • passer.
  •prehistoric (adjective)
  • pre historic,
  • pre-historic.
  •primary (adjective)
  • more idiopathic,
  • most idiopathic.
  •primary/prime (adjective)
  • three r,
  • three rs,
  • most primary.
  •primitive (adjective)
  • naive,
  • vestigial,
  • unsophisticated,
  • simple,
  • childlike,
  • underdeveloped,
  • raw,
  • pristine,
  • untutored,
  • untrained,
  • atavistic,
  • rough,
  • unlearned,
  • unevolved,
  • animal,
  • preliterate.
  •radical (adjective)
  • pro founder,
  • pro-found,
  • pro-founder,
  • pro found.
  •rough-and-ready (adjective)
  • more wild and woolly,
  • most wild and woolly,
  • rough and ready,
  • wild and woolly,
  • jerrybuilt,
  • more wild-and-woolly,
  • pro visional,
  • jerry built,
  • most wild-and-woolly.
  •rudimental (adjective)
  • Rudimental.
  •rudimentary (adjective)
  • uncompleted,
  • nuts-and-bolts,
  • larval.
  •rustic (adjective)
  • un affected.
  •savage (adjective)
  • most nonliterate,
  • un broken,
  • un-broken,
  • non-literate,
  • un-restrained,
  • most unbroken,
  • un modified,
  • more unbroken,
  • un-modified,
  • more unmodified,
  • most unmodified,
  • in a state nature,
  • un spoiled,
  • more nonliterate,
  • non literate,
  • in state nature,
  • unspoiled,
  • in state of nature,
  • un-spoiled.
  •simple (adjective)
  • embryonic.
  •thoughtless (adjective)
  • unheeding,
  • unthoughtful,
  • Hot-headed,
  • anti-social,
  • asocial.
  •uncivilized (adjective)
  • more illbred,
  • un godlier,
  • mannerless,
  • more ill-bred,
  • most ill-bred,
  • un-civilized,
  • more ill bred,
  • un mannered,
  • un-educated,
  • un holy,
  • un-conscionable,
  • un controlled,
  • un educated,
  • ill bred,
  • most illbred,
  • un holiest,
  • un conscionable,
  • un-godly,
  • most mannerless,
  • un civilized,
  • dis-respectful,
  • un godliest,
  • un-godlier,
  • un-mannered,
  • un-controlled,
  • un-holiest,
  • un-holier,
  • un-godliest,
  • most ill bred,
  • dis respectful,
  • un godly,
  • more mannerless,
  • un holier,
  • un-holy.
  •underlying (adjective)
  • rootest,
  • under lying,
  • under-lying,
  • needful.
  •undeveloped (adjective)
  • behindhand,
  • unactualized.
  •unprocessed (adjective)
  • unprocessed.
  •unrefined (adjective)
  • in-elegant,
  • most troglodytic,
  • more troglodytic,
  • un-refined,
  • un refined,
  • in elegant.
  •unthoughtful (adjective)
  • dis-regardful,
  • un-thinking,
  • un thinking,
  • un-thoughtful,
  • un thoughtful,
  • dis regardful.
  •wild (adjective)
  • de solate,
  • most overrun,
  • over grown,
  • un-inhabited,
  • de sert,
  • more overrun,
  • un inhabited,
  • de-sert,
  • un-touched,
  • de-solate,
  • wastest,
  • un touched,
  • over-grown.

• n.

  •
  • canvas,
  • bas relief,
  • daub,
  • aquatint,
  • collage,
  • cartoon,
  • doodle,
  • abstract,
  • caricature,
  • diptych.
  •
  • coincidental,
  • accidental,
  • spontaneous,
  • unintended,
  • involuntary,
  • instinctive,
  • start,
  • impromptu,
  • by accident,
  • arbitrary,
  • random.
  •
  • caveman,
  • the Dreamtime,
  • fossilized,
  • carboniferous,
  • fossilize,
  • fossil,
  • the Cretaceous,
  • ammonite,
  • era,
  • Cro-Magnon man.
  •
  • normal,
  • standard,
  • ordinary,
  • routine,
  • mundane,
  • commonplace,
  • knowledge,
  • backward,
  • unremarkable,
  • unexceptional,
  • nondescript,
  • everyday.
  •
  • colored,
  • good,
  • cracker,
  • canuck,
  • coon,
  • coolie,
  • eskimo,
  • black,
  • coloured,
  • dago.
  •
  • culture,
  • wild.
  •ancient (noun)
  • primeval,
  • primordial.
  •artists (noun)
  • cartoonist,
  • the Bloomsbury Group,
  • illustrator,
  • caricaturist,
  • futurist,
  • draftsman,
  • the avant-garde,
  • artist,
  • classicist,
  • impressionist.
  •cannibal (noun)
  • anthropophagus,
  • Anthropophaginian,
  • Head-hunter,
  • bush dweller,
  • anthropophagite,
  • Anthropophagi,
  • ogresses,
  • headhunter,
  • head hunter,
  • ogress,
  • headhunters,
  • cruel person,
  • savages.
  •noncivilised (noun)
  • noncivilised.
  •noncivilized (noun)
  • noncivilized.
  •person (noun)
  • primitive person.
  •uncivilized (noun)
  • gothic,
  • green.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • benighted,
  • feral,
  • childish,
  • early,
  • elemental,
  • baptist,
  • uncultured,
  • original.
  •
  • remote,
  • uncultivated,
  • elementary.
  •
  • ultimate,
  • unpolished.
  •
  • ignorant.
  •old fashioned
  • extinct,
  • tweedy,
  • dowdy,
  • old-time,
  • backward-looking,
  • out,
  • clunky,
  • go out,
  • quaint,
  • fusty,
  • provincial,
  • low-tech,
  • old school,
  • victorian,
  • dated,
  • demode,
  • retro,
  • straitlaced,
  • humble,
  • uncool,
  • whimsical,
  • Old World,
  • obsolescence,
  • date,
  • obsolescent,
  • regressive,
  • square.

Paraphrases for Primitive:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    primeval, primal.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    primordial, hardy, barbaric, austere, raw, ancient, low-tech, makeshift, homemade, initial, virgin, firsthand.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    pristine, improvised, rustic, primary, crude.

Antonyms for Primitive:

• adj.

  • aboriginal
    foreign.
  • antediluvian
    up-to-date, young.
  • austere
    extravagant, luxurious.
  • barbarian
    educated, nice, refined, kind, humane, polite, civilized.
  • primitive
    cultured, present.
  • Other antonyms:
    doubting, down-to-earth, sober, newfangled, higher, knowing, state of the art, perfected, watchful, modernistic, latest, new, mature, leery, careful, mod, full-blown, high, unconvinced, cultivated, hardheaded, incredulous, full-scale, ultramodern, adventitious, modern, pragmatic, worldly, ripe, recent, exotic, cosmopolitan, ripened, civilised, complex, matured, critical, novel, realistic, now, full-fledged, skeptical, worldly-wise, fresh, wary, enlightened, new-fashioned, space age, sophisticated, cautious, grown, involved, intricate, current, complicated, later, street smart, suspicious, cynical, guarded, present-day, contemporary, streetwise.

Hypernym for Primitive:

• n.

  • person
    feral man, mound builder, savage, missing link, wild man, Heidelberg Man, Piltdown Hoax, cave man, troglodyte, caveman, Homo Heidelbergensis, aryan, Piltdown Man, cave dweller, indo-european, barbarian, ape-man, basket maker, Autochthon.

Hyponym for Primitive:

• n.

  • communication
    formula, word, expression.
  • person
    mortal, somebody, person, soul, someone, individual.