Definition for Primitive:

• Primitively.

Synonyms for Primitive:

• adj.

  •aboriginal (adjective)
  • ancient,
  • indigenous,
  • native,
  • original,
  • endemic.
  •all (adjective)
  • crude,
  • rude.
  •amateur (adjective)
  • incompetent,
  • novice,
  • unskilled,
  • nonprofessional,
  • inexperienced,
  • unprofessional,
  • amateur.
  •antediluvian (adjective)
  • antique,
  • obsolete,
  • venerable,
  • antiquated.
  •antiquarian (adjective)
  • aged.
  •archaic (adjective)
  • olden,
  • outmoded,
  • bygone.
  •austere (adjective)
  • rustic,
  • spare,
  • unadorned,
  • unembellished,
  • bare,
  • severe,
  • stark,
  • plain,
  • spartan.
  •barbarian (adjective)
  • coarse,
  • philistine,
  • untamed,
  • vulgar,
  • barbaric,
  • inhuman,
  • uncouth,
  • brutal,
  • uncivil.
  •earliest (adjective)
  • original,
  • primordial.
  •early (adjective)
  • initial.
  •idolatrous (adjective)
  • heathen.
  •in the beginning (adjective)
  • early.
  •old (adjective)
  • antiquated,
  • aged,
  • antediluvian,
  • antique,
  • venerable,
  • primeval,
  • old,
  • paleolithic,
  • archaic,
  • ancient,
  • oldfangled,
  • elderly,
  • primordial,
  • olden.
  •original (adjective)
  • underivative.
  •primitive (adjective)
  • natural,
  • wild,
  • primordial,
  • underived,
  • untamed,
  • underdeveloped,
  • first,
  • unevolved,
  • fierce,
  • rude,
  • fundamental,
  • uncultured,
  • childlike,
  • primal,
  • undomesticated,
  • old,
  • basic,
  • uncivilized,
  • archaic,
  • simple,
  • atavistic,
  • austere,
  • brutish,
  • barbarian,
  • essential,
  • savage,
  • undeveloped,
  • underivative,
  • untutored,
  • untrained,
  • unrefined,
  • substratal,
  • rudimentary,
  • primary,
  • animal,
  • nonliterate,
  • naive,
  • vestigial,
  • preliterate,
  • early,
  • primeval,
  • rough,
  • ignorant,
  • barbarous,
  • pristine,
  • unlearned,
  • earliest,
  • elementary,
  • untaught,
  • underlying,
  • raw,
  • uncultivated,
  • unsophisticated.
  •rudimentary (adjective)
  • vestigial.
  •simple (adjective)
  • first,
  • fundamental,
  • rudimentary,
  • embryonic.
  •thoughtless (adjective)
  • unthoughtful.
  •undeveloped (adjective)
  • unevolved.
  •unenlightened (adjective)
  • benighted.
  •unprocessed (adjective)
  • unprocessed.
  •untamed (adjective)
  • wild.

• n.

  •
  • elemental,
  • fundamental,
  • underlying,
  • essential,
  • elementary,
  • ultimate,
  • basic.
  •
  • fossil,
  • fossilized,
  • caveman.
  •
  • benighted,
  • ignorant,
  • backward.
  •
  • unpolished.
  •
  • barbaric,
  • uncultivated,
  • barbarous,
  • savage,
  • uncivilized,
  • barbarian,
  • wild,
  • uncultured.
  •aborigine (noun)
  • bushman,
  • indigene,
  • Autochthon,
  • aboriginal.
  •ancient (noun)
  • archaic,
  • prehistoric,
  • primordial,
  • old,
  • earliest,
  • primeval,
  • antediluvian.
  •old fashioned (noun)
  • low-tech,
  • obsolete,
  • old fashioned,
  • dated.
  •person (noun)
  • primitive person.
  •primitive (noun)
  • crude,
  • primitive person,
  • early,
  • noncivilised,
  • noncivilized,
  • archaic,
  • untrained,
  • rude.
  •simple (noun)
  • embryonic,
  • unsophisticated,
  • rudimentary,
  • crude,
  • rude,
  • fundamental,
  • unrefined,
  • childlike,
  • first,
  • unpolished.
  •uncivilized (noun)
  • fierce,
  • barbaric,
  • ignorant,
  • barbarous,
  • animal,
  • underdeveloped,
  • green,
  • barbarian,
  • untaught,
  • unlearned,
  • untutored,
  • gothic,
  • savage,
  • simple,
  • uncivilized,
  • uncultured,
  • untamed,
  • uncouth,
  • undomesticated,
  • wild.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • childish,
  • old fashioned,
  • fierce,
  • cannibalistic,
  • feral,
  • elemental,
  • uncultured,
  • benighted,
  • early,
  • original.
  •
  • colonial,
  • remote,
  • elementary,
  • underlying,
  • uncultivated,
  • basic.
  •
  • ultimate,
  • unpolished,
  • native.
  •
  • essential,
  • ignorant.
  •
  • backward.
  •barbarous
  • uncivilized.
  •inconsiderate
  • thoughtless.
  •man-eater
  • cannibal.
  •old fashioned
  • extinct,
  • obsolete,
  • tweedy,
  • dated,
  • low-tech,
  • fossilized,
  • medieval,
  • straitlaced,
  • quaint,
  • demode,
  • clunky,
  • passe,
  • retro,
  • old school,
  • obsolescent,
  • victorian,
  • uncool.
  •primitive
  • barbaric.
  •uncivilized
  • barbarous,
  • wild,
  • barbarian.
  •wild
  • savage.
  •Other relevant words:
  • distant,
  • crude,
  • first,
  • Inceptive,
  • introductory,
  • connate,
  • ab ovo,
  • paleontologic,
  • plain,
  • creation,
  • local,
  • caveman,
  • Primogenial,
  • victorian,
  • feral man,
  • ascetic,
  • Protogenic,
  • firstly,
  • onetime,
  • Autochthon,
  • preColumbian,
  • pregnant,
  • ill-formed,
  • vernacular,
  • in embryo,
  • undecorated,
  • rudimentary,
  • inchoative,
  • untaught,
  • procreative,
  • material,
  • expression,
  • radical,
  • fore,
  • inventive,
  • cannibal,
  • foremost,
  • bounderish,
  • retro,
  • childish,
  • obsolete,
  • bestial,
  • unsuspecting,
  • constituent,
  • undomesticated,
  • heathen,
  • untalented,
  • then,
  • character,
  • native,
  • ill-mannered,
  • prenatal,
  • backward,
  • misshapen,
  • impolite,
  • straitlaced,
  • rough-hewn,
  • initiatory,
  • genetic,
  • preliterate,
  • autochthonic,
  • awkward,
  • extinct,
  • infant,
  • earliest,
  • essentially,
  • mind,
  • underbred,
  • lasciviously,
  • substantial,
  • polytheistic,
  • mainly,
  • unenlightened,
  • outlying,
  • hominidae,
  • anthropoid,
  • postnatal,
  • unshaped,
  • elementary,
  • immature,
  • diluvian,
  • aspect,
  • quondam,
  • basic,
  • primaeval,
  • Caused,
  • underived,
  • troglodyte,
  • ingenuous,
  • uncivil,
  • untrained,
  • former,
  • Troglodytic,
  • vulgar,
  • predecessor,
  • extreme,
  • blunt,
  • initial,
  • Gestatory,
  • simple,
  • fossil,
  • bare,
  • cognate,
  • formative,
  • recluse,
  • erstwhile,
  • barbarian,
  • gut,
  • inaugural,
  • pristinely,
  • Capitally,
  • primate,
  • brutish,
  • Primevally,
  • natural,
  • basal,
  • Unlicked,
  • Preglacial,
  • ferocious,
  • pristine,
  • inartistic,
  • oldfangled,
  • antebellum,
  • undeveloped,
  • inchoate,
  • unsuspicious,
  • azoic,
  • elemental,
  • out of fashion,
  • radically,
  • prior,
  • lustfully,
  • underlying,
  • benighted,
  • man,
  • causal,
  • indigenous,
  • outlandish,
  • budding,
  • ignorant,
  • Primordially,
  • uninitiate,
  • olden,
  • austere,
  • uncultured,
  • noncivilized,
  • spartan,
  • voice,
  • bushman,
  • demode,
  • lowbred,
  • Rudimental,
  • organic,
  • crucial,
  • unpractised,
  • involuntarily,
  • constitutive,
  • imperfect,
  • original,
  • gothic,
  • originally,
  • cardinally,
  • antiquarian,
  • patriarchal,
  • person,
  • medieval,
  • in the bud,
  • unthoughtful,
  • native-born,
  • formula,
  • primary,
  • outworn,
  • Natively,
  • savagely,
  • lewdly,
  • thoughtless,
  • creative,
  • of the essence,
  • personification,
  • genuine,
  • homely,
  • modest,
  • spare,
  • paleozoic,
  • phrase,
  • seminal,
  • unrefined,
  • simpleminded,
  • inhuman,
  • fossilized,
  • nonliterate,
  • first comer,
  • etymon,
  • rough-and-ready,
  • cave man,
  • animal,
  • embryonic,
  • primitive person,
  • unskilful,
  • makeshift,
  • salaciously,
  • antenatal,
  • past,
  • inexpert,
  • unknowing,
  • rustic,
  • uncivilised,
  • primarily,
  • missing link,
  • primitively,
  • dated,
  • naive,
  • pantheistic,
  • formers,
  • underdeveloped,
  • Unembroidered,
  • bungling,
  • uncouth,
  • brutally,
  • rough,
  • uncombed,
  • barbaric,
  • ultimate,
  • Preadamite,
  • lecherously,
  • atavistic,
  • prehuman,
  • once,
  • unproficient,
  • persistent,
  • formerly,
  • uncivilized,
  • hominid,
  • initiative,
  • earthy,
  • stark,
  • doublet,
  • back,
  • beginning,
  • Primely,
  • bygone,
  • unpolished,
  • bumbling,
  • early,
  • obsolescent,
  • endemic,
  • foundational,
  • innocent,
  • form,
  • root,
  • ancestral,
  • untutored,
  • stylist,
  • ghost,
  • severe,
  • Primigenous,
  • prime,
  • savage,
  • indigene,
  • appearance,
  • unkempt,
  • soul,
  • colonial,
  • unadorned,
  • anciently,
  • remote,
  • diction,
  • ill-bred,
  • previous,
  • fundamental,
  • brutal,
  • personality,
  • green,
  • germinal,
  • thoroughgoing,
  • philistine,
  • heart,
  • creature,
  • in its infancy,
  • unevolved,
  • tweedy,
  • unmannered,
  • mediaeval,
  • naif,
  • substratal,
  • wild man,
  • sparse,
  • noncivilised,
  • rude,
  • clumsy,
  • untamed,
  • unmannerly,
  • old school,
  • Antemundane,
  • immemorial,
  • unschooled,
  • isolated,
  • basically,
  • inaccurate,
  • humanoid,
  • aborigine,
  • homebred,
  • unembellished,
  • barbarous,
  • homespun,
  • aw-shucks,
  • cannibalistic,
  • unsophisticated,
  • neanderthal,
  • late,
  • homegrown,
  • Noachian,
  • classic,
  • prehistoric,
  • personage,
  • Ogygian,
  • sensually,
  • ape-man,
  • embryotic,
  • aboriginal,
  • artless,
  • parturient,
  • outmoded,
  • local yokel,
  • generative,
  • feral,
  • abecedarian,
  • paleoanthropological,
  • low-tech,
  • inept,
  • Paleocrystic,
  • nascent,
  • fiercely,
  • wild,
  • Aborigines,
  • autochthonous,
  • fierce,
  • simplistic,
  • unlearned,
  • uncultivated,
  • incipient,
  • vestigial,
  • Proemial,
  • uncool,
  • passe,
  • primal,
  • essential,
  • chiefly,
  • instinctively,
  • principally,
  • cave dweller,
  • uncritical,
  • thorough,
  • unfinished,
  • monastic,
  • natal,
  • protohuman,
  • basilar,
  • infantile,
  • clunky,
  • raw,
  • eponym,
  • fundamentally,
  • derivation,
  • inelegant,
  • underivative,
  • fetal,
  • old fashioned,
  • unprocessed,
  • gross,
  • coarse,
  • sometime,
  • central,
  • gauche,
  • quaint,
  • childlike,
  • substantive,
  • yokelish.

Antonyms for Primitive:

• adj.

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

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.