Synonyms: primitive
Definition: a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
Usage: `pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived
Similar words: word
Definition: a unit of language that native speakers can identify
Usage: words are the blocks from which sentences are made; he hardly said ten words all morning
Synonyms: primitive
Definition: a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
Similar words: formula, expression
Definition: a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement
Synonyms: primitive, primitive person
Definition: a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
Similar words: somebody, someone, soul, mortal, person, individual
Definition: a human being
Usage: there was too much for one person to do
Synonyms: primitive
Definition: used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
Usage: primitive societies
Similar words: noncivilised, noncivilized
Definition: not having a high state of culture and social development
Definition: little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
Usage: archaic forms of life; primitive mammals; the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe
Similar words: early
Definition: being or occurring at an early stage of development
Usage: in an early stage; early forms of life; early man; an early computer
Synonyms: primitive, rude, crude
Definition: belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
Usage: the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man; primitive movies of the 1890s; primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains
Similar words: early
Definition: being or occurring at an early stage of development
Usage: in an early stage; early forms of life; early man; an early computer
Definition: of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
Usage: primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking
Similar words: untrained
Definition: not disciplined or conditioned or made adept by training
Usage: an untrained voice; untrained troops; young minds untrained in the habit of concentration