adj.
1.belonging to an early stage of technical development
2.little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
3.used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
4.of or created by one without formal training primitive n.
1.a person who belongs to early stage of civilization
2.a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
3.a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
Idiom of the Day
for fear of (something)
because of the fear of something
We stayed home all weekend for fear of getting hit by the big storm.