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primitive

adjective
  1. used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
    “primitive societies”
  2. little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
    archaic
  3. belonging to an early stage of technical development
    cruderude
  4. of or created by one without formal training
    naive
noun
  1. a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
    “`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived”
  2. a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
  3. a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
    primitive person