Primitive

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NOUN

a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived

a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms

ADJ

belonging to an early stage of technical development

little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies

of or created by one without formal training

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