LekhoriLekhoriAn original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
A member of a primitive society.
A simple-minded person.
Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
primitive innocence; the primitive church
Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
From Middle English primitif, from Old French primitif, from Latin prīmitīvus (“first or earliest of its kind”), from prīmus (“first”); see prime. Doublet of primitivo.
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a primitive style of dress
Crude, obsolete.
primitive ideas