Scrabble?! PRIMITIVE

Definitions of PRIMITIVE in various dictionaries:

noun - a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

noun - a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived

noun - a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms

adj - belonging to an early stage of technical development

adj - little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

adj - used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies

adj - of or created by one without formal training

Not derived from something else; primary or basic.

Of or relating to an earliest or original stage or state; primeval.

Being little evolved from an early ancestral type.

See Synonyms at rude.

Of or relating to a nonindustrial, often tribal culture, especially one that is characterized by a low level of economic complexity: primitive societies.

Linguistics.

Serving as the basis for derived or inflected forms: Pick is the primitive word from which picket is derived.

Being a protolanguage: primitive Germanic.

An algebraic or geometric expression from which another expression is derived.

Relating or belonging to forces of nature; elemental: primitive passions.

Of or created by an artist without formal training; simple or naive in style.

Of or relating to the work of an artist from a nonindustrial, often tribal culture, especially a culture that is characterized by a low level of economic complexity.

Of or relating to late medieval or preRenaissance European painters or sculptors.

Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.

A person belonging to a nonindustrial, often tribal society, especially a society characterized by a low level of economic complexity.

An unsophisticated person.

One that is at a low or early stage of development.

One belonging to an early stage in the development of an artistic trend, especially a painter of the preRenaissance period.

An artist having or affecting a simple, direct, unschooled style, as of painting.

A self-taught artist.

A work of art created by a primitive artist.

A word or word element from which another word is derived by morphological or historical processes or from which inflected forms are derived.

A basic or fundamental unit of machine instruction or translation.