primitives

primitive

• n.
  • a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

    同义词：primitive person

  • a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
  • a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms

    "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"

• adj.
  • belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness

    "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"

    同义词：cruderude

  • little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

    "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"

    同义词：archaic

  • used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies

    "primitive societies"

  • of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style

    "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking"

    同义词：naive