Tra từ primitive - Từ điển American Heritage Dictionary 4th

prim·i·tive (prĭmʹĭ-tĭv)adj.
1. Not derived from something else; primary or basic.
2.
a. Of or relating to an earliest or original stage or state; primeval.
b. Being little evolved from an early ancestral type.
3. Characterized by simplicity or crudity; unsophisticated:
primitive weapons.
See Synonyms at rude.
4. Anthropology. Of or relating to a nonindustrial, often tribal culture, especially one that is characterized by a low level of economic complexity:
primitive societies.
5. Linguistics.
a. Serving as the basis for derived or inflected forms:
Pick is the primitive word from which picket is derived.
b. Being a protolanguage:
primitive Germanic.
6. Mathematics. An algebraic or geometric expression from which another expression is derived.
7. Relating or belonging to forces of nature; elemental:
primitive passions.
8.
a. Of or created by an artist without formal training; simple or naive in style.
b. 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.
9. Of or relating to late medieval or pre-Renaissance European painters or sculptors.
10. Biology. Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.n.
1. Anthropology. A person belonging to a nonindustrial, often tribal society, especially a society characterized by a low level of economic complexity.
2. An unsophisticated person.
3. One that is at a low or early stage of development.
4.
a. One belonging to an early stage in the development of an artistic trend, especially a painter of the pre-Renaissance period.
b. An artist having or affecting a simple, direct, unschooled style, as of painting.
c. A self-taught artist.
d. A work of art created by a primitive artist.
5. Linguistics.
a. A word or word element from which another word is derived by morphological or historical processes or from which inflected forms are derived.
b. A basic and indivisible unit of linguistic analysis. Also called prime.
6. Computer Science. A basic or fundamental unit of machine instruction or translation. [Middle English, from Old French primitif, primitive, from Latin prīmitīvus, from prīmitus, at first, from prīmus, first. See per¹ in Indo-European Roots.] primʹi·tive·ly adv.primʹi·tive·ness or prim'i·tivʹi·ty n.