What is another word for primitive?
807 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ pɹˈɪmɪtˌɪv], [ pɹˈɪmɪtˌɪv], [ p_ɹ_ˈɪ_m_ɪ_t_ˌɪ_v]Table of Contents
Similar words for primitive:
- aboriginal (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- amateur (adjective)
- antediluvian (adjective)
- antiquarian (adjective)
- archaic (adjective)
- austere (adjective)
- barbarian (adjective)
- barbaric (adjective)
- barbarous (adjective)
- basic (adjective)
- benighted (adjective)
- cannibalistic (adjective)
- colonial (adjective)
- crude (adjective)
- early (adjective)
- elementary (adjective)
- essential (adjective)
- fierce (adjective)
- first (adjective)
- fundamental (adjective)
- idolatrous (adjective)
- indigenous (adjective)
- medieval (adjective)
- native (adjective)
- natural (adjective)
- old (adjective)
- old-fashioned (adjective)
- olden (adjective)
- organic (adjective)
- original (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- passe (adjective)
- prehistoric (adjective)
- primary (adjective)
- primary/prime (adjective)
- primitive (adjective)
- radical (adjective)
- rough-and-ready (adjective)
- rudimental (adjective)
- rudimentary (adjective)
- rustic (adjective)
- savage (adjective)
- simple (adjective)
- thoughtless (adjective)
- uncivilized (adjective)
- underlying (adjective)
- undeveloped (adjective)
- unprocessed (adjective)
- unrefined (adjective)
- unthoughtful (adjective)
- wild (adjective)
- ancient (noun)
- artists (noun)
- cannibal (noun)
- noncivilised (noun)
- noncivilized (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- person (noun)
- uncivilized (noun)
- other synonyms
- old fashioned
Synonyms for Primitive:
adj.
• aboriginal (adjective) • all (adjective)- rude.
- incompetent,
- novice,
- unskilled,
- nonprofessional,
- inexperienced,
- unprofessional,
- amateur.
- aged.
- clean,
- bald,
- bleak,
- dour,
- unadorned,
- stark,
- spare,
- spartan,
- plain,
- bare,
- vanilla,
- severe,
- subdued,
- unembellished.
- brutal,
- lowbrow,
- merciless,
- untamed,
- boorish,
- inhuman,
- uncivil,
- coarse,
- vicious,
- cruel,
- vulgar,
- uncouth,
- philistine.
- in-dispensable,
- sub stratal,
- more necessary,
- more substratal,
- most substratal,
- in dispensable,
- substratal,
- sub-stratal.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- first,
- unembarrassed,
- undeveloped,
- Inartificial,
- archaic,
- amoebic,
- underlying,
- rustic,
- barbaric,
- antiquarian,
- Troglodytic,
- underived,
- aper,
- wild-and-woolly,
- prehistoric,
- numero uno,
- nonliterate,
- barebones,
- foundational,
- anatomical,
- cannibalistic,
- passe,
- not with it,
- up-front,
- basic,
- illbred,
- unrefined,
- colonial,
- Unmilled,
- primary,
- over-run,
- brutish,
- axiological,
- tigerish,
- nitty gritty,
- Primogenial,
- prerevolutionary,
- Plasmic,
- idiopathic,
- old-fashioned,
- Headmost,
- ungraded,
- old-hat,
- name of game,
- earliest,
- thoughtless,
- austere,
- laid back,
- meat-and-potatoes,
- aboriginal,
- ad lib,
- uncontrived,
- rough-and-ready,
- indigenous,
- antediluvian,
- uncivilized,
- ageold,
- old fashioned,
- inhumane,
- unsorted,
- medieval,
- unstylish,
- substrative,
- simplex,
- savage,
- Rooter,
- unproficient,
- nubber,
- grown old,
- old,
- demoded,
- barbarous,
- nuclear,
- uncomplex,
- out of it,
- bare-bones,
- cellular,
- rudimentary,
- natural,
- old-fangled,
- primo,
- out of date,
- not modern,
- unmodified,
- upfront,
- in the rough,
- bottom-line,
- being oneself,
- lead off,
- right up front,
- thrown together,
- not current,
- in a state of nature,
- Anthropophagous,
- ill-bred,
- radical,
- unworked,
- fierce,
- native,
- wolfish,
- out-dated,
- crude,
- ADLIB,
- biotic,
- barbarian,
- out-of-style,
- chthonic,
- out of style,
- organic,
- unassumed,
- in the beginning,
- Unacquired,
- essential,
- undomesticated,
- oldfashioned,
- unwrought,
- prentice,
- of the old school,
- primal,
- simplehearted,
- Unlabored.
- naive,
- vestigial,
- unsophisticated,
- simple,
- childlike,
- underdeveloped,
- raw,
- pristine,
- untutored,
- untrained,
- atavistic,
- rough,
- unlearned,
- unevolved,
- animal,
- preliterate.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
n.
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•
- canvas,
- bas relief,
- daub,
- aquatint,
- collage,
- cartoon,
- doodle,
- abstract,
- caricature,
- diptych.
-
•
- coincidental,
- accidental,
- spontaneous,
- unintended,
- involuntary,
- instinctive,
- start,
- impromptu,
- by accident,
- arbitrary,
- random.
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•
- caveman,
- the Dreamtime,
- fossilized,
- carboniferous,
- fossilize,
- fossil,
- the Cretaceous,
- ammonite,
- era,
- Cro-Magnon man.
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•
- normal,
- standard,
- ordinary,
- routine,
- mundane,
- commonplace,
- knowledge,
- backward,
- unremarkable,
- unexceptional,
- nondescript,
- everyday.
- cartoonist,
- the Bloomsbury Group,
- illustrator,
- caricaturist,
- futurist,
- draftsman,
- the avant-garde,
- artist,
- classicist,
- impressionist.
- anthropophagus,
- Anthropophaginian,
- Head-hunter,
- bush dweller,
- anthropophagite,
- Anthropophagi,
- ogresses,
- headhunter,
- head hunter,
- ogress,
- headhunters,
- cruel person,
- savages.
Other synonyms:
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•
- remote,
- uncultivated,
- elementary.
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•
- ultimate,
- unpolished.
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•
- ignorant.
- 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.
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crude, improvised, primary, pristine, rustic.
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