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primitive
Overview of noun primitive
The noun primitive has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. primitive, primitive person -- (a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization)
2. primitive -- (a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived)
3. primitive -- (a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived")
Overview of adj primitive
The adj primitive has 4 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (8) crude, primitive, rude -- (belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains")
2. (2) archaic, primitive -- (little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe")
3. (1) primitive -- (used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies")
4. primitive, naive -- (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")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun primitive
3 senses of primitive
Sense 1
primitive, primitive person
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
primitive
=> formula, expression
=> mathematical statement
=> statement
=> message, content, subject matter, substance
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
primitive
=> word
=> language unit, linguistic unit
=> part, portion, component part, component
=> relation
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun primitive
1 of 3 senses of primitive
Sense 1
primitive, primitive person
=> Aryan, Indo-European
=> aborigine, autochthon
=> Basket Maker
=> caveman, cave man, cave dweller, troglodyte
=> Heidelberg man, Homo heidelbergensis
=> missing link, ape-man
=> Mound Builder
=> Piltdown man, Piltdown hoax
=> savage, barbarian
=> wild man, feral man
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun primitive
3 senses of primitive
Sense 1
primitive, primitive person
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Sense 2
primitive
=> formula, expression
Sense 3
primitive
=> word
Antonyms of noun primitive
Member Holonyms of noun primitive
Substance Holonyms of noun primitive
Part Holonyms of noun primitive
Member Meronyms of noun primitive
Substance Meronyms of noun primitive
Part Meronyms of noun primitive
Meronyms of noun primitive
Holonyms of noun primitive
Attributes of noun primitive
Derived Forms of noun primitive
Domain of noun primitive
Domain Terms of noun primitive
Familiarity of noun primitive
primitive used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun primitive
3 senses of primitive
Sense 1
primitive, primitive person
> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> self
=> adult, grownup
=> adventurer, venturer
=> anomaly, unusual person
=> applicant, applier
=> appointee, appointment
=> capitalist
=> captor, capturer
=> changer, modifier
=> color-blind person
=> commoner, common man, common person
=> communicator
=> contestant
=> coward
=> creator
=> disputant, controversialist, eristic
=> engineer, applied scientist, technologist
=> entertainer
=> experimenter
=> expert
=> face
=> female, female person
=> individualist
=> inhabitant, habitant, dweller, denizen, indweller
=> native, indigen, indigene
=> innocent, inexperienced person
=> intellectual, intellect
=> juvenile, juvenile person
=> lover
=> leader
=> male, male person
=> money handler, money dealer
=> national, subject
=> nonreligious person
=> nonworker
=> peer, equal, match, compeer
=> perceiver, percipient, observer, beholder
=> percher
=> precursor, forerunner
=> primitive, primitive person
=> religious person
=> sensualist
=> traveler, traveller
=> unfortunate, unfortunate person
=> unwelcome person, persona non grata
=> unskilled person
=> worker
=> African
=> person of color, person of colour
=> Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
=> White, white person, Caucasian
=> Amerindian, Native American
=> Slav
=> gentile
=> Jew, Hebrew, Israelite
=> Aries, Ram
=> Taurus, Bull
=> Gemini, Twin
=> Cancer, Crab
=> Leo, Lion
=> Virgo, Virgin
=> Libra, Balance
=> Scorpio, Scorpion
=> Sagittarius, Archer
=> Capricorn, Goat
=> Aquarius, Water Bearer
=> Pisces, Fish
=> abator
=> abjurer
=> abomination
=> abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker
=> achiever, winner, success, succeeder
=> acquaintance, friend
=> acquirer
=> active
=> actor, doer, worker
=> adjudicator
=> admirer
=> adoptee
=> adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister
=> advisee
=> advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent
=> affiant
=> agnostic, doubter
=> amateur
=> ancient
=> anti
=> anti-American
=> apprehender
=> appreciator
=> archaist
=> arrogator
=> assessee
=> asthmatic
=> authority
=> autodidact
=> baby boomer, boomer
=> baby buster, buster
=> bad guy
=> bad person
=> baldhead, baldpate, baldy
=> balker, baulker, noncompliant
=> bullfighter, toreador
=> bather
=> beard
=> bedfellow
=> bereaved, bereaved person
=> best, topper
=> biter
=> blogger
=> blond, blonde
=> bluecoat
=> bodybuilder, muscle builder, muscle-builder, musclebuilder, muscleman
=> bomber
=> brunet, brunette
=> buster
=> candidate, prospect
=> cardholder
=> case
=> cashier
=> celebrant, celebrator, celebrater
=> censor
=> chameleon
=> charmer, beguiler
=> child, baby
=> chutzpanik
=> closer
=> clumsy person
=> collector, aggregator
=> combatant, battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper
=> complexifier
=> compulsive
=> computer user
=> contemplative
=> convert
=> copycat, imitator, emulator, ape, aper
=> counter
=> counterterrorist
=> crawler, creeper
=> creature, wight
=> creditor
=> cripple
=> dancer, social dancer
=> dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed
=> deaf person
=> debaser, degrader
=> debtor, debitor
=> defecator, voider, shitter
=> delayer
=> deliverer
=> demander
=> dieter
=> differentiator, discriminator
=> disentangler, unraveler, unraveller
=> dissenter, dissident, protester, objector, contestant
=> divider
=> domestic partner, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent
=> double, image, look-alike
=> dresser
=> dribbler, driveller, slobberer, drooler
=> drug user, substance abuser, user
=> dyslectic
=> ectomorph
=> effecter, effector
=> Elizabethan
=> emotional person
=> endomorph
=> enjoyer
=> enrollee
=> ethnic
=> explorer, adventurer
=> extrovert, extravert
=> faddist
=> faller
=> fastener
=> fiduciary
=> first-rater
=> follower
=> free agent, free spirit, freewheeler
=> friend
=> fugitive, runaway, fleer
=> gainer
=> gainer, weight gainer
=> gambler
=> gatekeeper
=> gatherer
=> good guy
=> good person
=> granter
=> greeter, saluter, welcomer
=> grinner
=> groaner
=> grunter
=> guesser
=> handicapped person
=> hater
=> heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight person, straight
=> homosexual, homophile, homo, gay
=> homunculus
=> hope
=> hoper
=> huddler
=> hugger
=> immune
=> insured, insured person
=> interpreter
=> introvert
=> Jat
=> jewel, gem
=> jumper
=> killer, slayer
=> relative, relation
=> kink
=> kneeler
=> knocker
=> knower, apprehender
=> large person
=> Latin
=> laugher
=> learner, scholar, assimilator
=> left-hander, lefty, southpaw
=> life
=> lightning rod
=> linguist, polyglot
=> literate, literate person
=> liver
=> longer, thirster, yearner
=> loose cannon
=> machine
=> mailer
=> malcontent
=> man
=> manipulator
=> man jack
=> married
=> masturbator, onanist
=> measurer
=> nonmember
=> mesomorph
=> mestizo, ladino
=> middlebrow
=> miracle man, miracle worker
=> misogamist
=> mixed-blood
=> modern
=> monolingual
=> mother hen
=> mouse
=> mutilator, maimer, mangler
=> namer
=> namesake
=> neglecter
=> neighbor, neighbour
=> neutral
=> nondescript
=> nonparticipant
=> nonpartisan, nonpartizan
=> nonperson, unperson
=> nonresident
=> nonsmoker
=> nude, nude person
=> nurser
=> occultist
=> optimist
=> orphan
=> ostrich
=> ouster, ejector
=> outcaste
=> outdoorsman
=> owner, possessor
=> pamperer, spoiler, coddler, mollycoddler
=> pansexual
=> pardoner, forgiver, excuser
=> partner
=> party
=> passer
=> personage
=> personification
=> perspirer, sweater
=> philosopher
=> picker, chooser, selector
=> pisser, urinator
=> planner, contriver, deviser
=> posturer
=> powderer
=> preserver
=> propositus
=> public relations person
=> pursuer
=> pussycat
=> quarter
=> quitter
=> radical
=> realist
=> rectifier
=> redhead, redheader, red-header, carrottop
=> registrant
=> reliever, allayer, comforter
=> repeater
=> rescuer, recoverer, saver
=> rester
=> restrainer, controller
=> revenant
=> rich person, wealthy person, have
=> right-hander, right hander, righthander
=> riser
=> romper
=> roundhead
=> ruler, swayer
=> rusher
=> scientist, man of science
=> scratcher
=> second-rater, mediocrity
=> seeder, cloud seeder
=> seeker, searcher, quester
=> segregate
=> sentimentalist, romanticist
=> sex object
=> shaker, mover and shaker
=> showman
=> signer, signatory
=> simpleton, simple
=> six-footer
=> skidder, slider, slipper
=> slave
=> slave
=> sleepyhead
=> sloucher
=> small person
=> smasher
=> smiler
=> sneezer
=> sniffer
=> sniffler, sniveler
=> snuffer
=> snuffler
=> socializer, socialiser
=> sort
=> sounding board
=> sphinx
=> spitter, expectorator
=> sport
=> sprawler
=> spurner
=> squinter, squint-eye
=> stifler, smotherer
=> stigmatic, stigmatist
=> stooper
=> struggler
=> subject, case, guinea pig
=> supernumerary
=> surrenderer, yielder
=> survivalist
=> survivor
=> suspect
=> tagger
=> tagger
=> tapper
=> tempter
=> termer
=> terror, scourge, threat
=> testator, testate
=> thin person, skin and bones, scrag
=> third-rater
=> thrower
=> tiger
=> totemist
=> toucher
=> transfer, transferee
=> transsexual, transexual
=> transvestite, cross-dresser
=> trier, attempter, essayer
=> turner
=> tyrant
=> undoer, opener, unfastener, untier
=> user
=> vanisher
=> victim, dupe
=> Victorian
=> visionary
=> visually impaired person
=> waiter
=> waker
=> walk-in
=> wanter, needer
=> ward
=> warrior
=> watcher
=> weakling, doormat, wuss
=> wiggler, wriggler, squirmer
=> winker
=> withholder
=> witness
=> worldling
=> yawner
Sense 2
primitive
> formula, expression
=> sentential function
=> primitive
=> exponential expression
Sense 3
primitive
> word
=> anagram
=> anaphor
=> antonym, opposite word, opposite
=> back-formation
=> charade
=> cognate, cognate word
=> content word, open-class word
=> contraction
=> deictic, deictic word
=> derivative
=> diminutive
=> dirty word
=> disyllable, dissyllable
=> form, word form, signifier, descriptor
=> four-letter word, four-letter Anglo-Saxon word
=> function word, closed-class word
=> guide word, guideword, catchword
=> head, head word
=> headword
=> heteronym
=> holonym, whole name
=> homonym
=> hypernym, superordinate, superordinate word
=> hyponym, subordinate, subordinate word
=> key word
=> loanblend, loan-blend, hybrid
=> loanword, loan
=> meronym, part name
=> metonym
=> monosyllable, monosyllabic word
=> neologism, neology, coinage
=> nonce word, hapax legomenon
=> oxytone
=> palindrome
=> primitive
=> paroxytone
=> partitive
=> polysemant, polysemantic word, polysemous word
=> polysyllable, polysyllabic word
=> proparoxytone
=> quantifier
=> quantifier, logical quantifier
=> reduplication
=> retronym
=> substantive
=> synonym, equivalent word
=> term
=> terminology, nomenclature, language
=> trisyllable
=> troponym, manner name
=> vocable, spoken word
=> classifier
=> written word
=> syncategorem, syncategoreme
Meronyms of noun primitive
3 senses of primitive
Sense 1
primitive, primitive person
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Sense 2
primitive
=> formula, expression
=> mathematical statement
HAS PART: mathematical notation
Sense 3
primitive
=> word
HAS PART: syllable
HAS PART: affix
Holonyms of noun primitive
Grep of noun primitive
primitive
primitive art
primitive person
primitiveness
Antonyms of adj primitive
4 senses of primitive
Sense 1
crude, primitive, rude
INDIRECT (VIA early) -> late, later
Sense 2
archaic, primitive
INDIRECT (VIA early) -> late, later
Sense 3
primitive
INDIRECT (VIA noncivilized) -> civilized, civilised
Sense 4
primitive, naive
INDIRECT (VIA untrained) -> trained
Similarity of adj primitive
4 senses of primitive
Sense 1
crude, primitive, rude
=> early (vs. late)
Sense 2
archaic, primitive
=> early (vs. late)
Sense 3
primitive
=> noncivilized (vs. civilized), noncivilised
Sense 4
primitive, naive
=> untrained (vs. trained)
Pertainyms of adj primitive
Attributes of adj primitive
Domain of adj primitive
2 of 4 senses of primitive
Sense 3
primitive
TOPIC>(noun) anthropology#1
Sense 4
primitive, naive
TOPIC>(noun) fine arts#1, beaux arts#1
Domain Terms of adj primitive
Familiarity of adj primitive
primitive used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Grep of adj primitive
primitive
Grep of adv primitive
primitively
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