Primitive

Antonyms for primitive:

educated, refined, civilized.

Synonyms for primitive:

Sense 1

cannibalistic, feral, childish, uncultured, baptist, fierce, old fashioned, elemental, early, original, benighted.

Sense 2

underlying, uncultivated, elementary, colonial, basic, remote.

Sense 3

ultimate, unpolished, native.

Sense 4

essential, ignorant.

Sense 6

backward.

barbarous

uncivilized.

inconsiderate

thoughtless.

man-eater

cannibal.

old fashioned

fossilized, demode, dated, extinct, passe, old-time, medieval, clunky, humble, old-hat, regressive, square, backward-looking, fusty, victorian, quaint, whimsical, obsolete, low-tech, old school, date, tweedy, uncool, provincial, obsolescent, obsolescence, Old World, retro, out, straitlaced, go out, dowdy.

primitive

barbaric.

uncivilized

barbarous, wild, barbarian.

wild

savage.

aboriginal (adjective)

native, original, ancient.

all (adjective)

crude, rude.

amateur (adjective)

incompetent, inexperienced, nonprofessional, novice, unskilled, amateur, unprofessional.

antediluvian (adjective)

antique, venerable, antiquated, obsolete.

antiquarian (adjective)

aged.

barbarian (adjective)

uncivil, vulgar, barbaric.

earliest (adjective)

original, primordial.

idolatrous (adjective)

heathen.

in the beginning (adjective)

early.

old (adjective)

antediluvian, aged, antique, primeval, antiquated, elderly, old, ancient, venerable, primordial, archaic, paleolithic.

primitive (adjective)

primal, early, savage, unrefined, simple, basic, unsophisticated, old, barbarous, primordial, ignorant, uncivilized, raw, fierce, first, uncultured, elementary, uncultivated, untrained, underlying, rough, primary, wild, rude, archaic, naive, pristine, primeval, barbarian, fundamental, essential.

simple (adjective)

first, fundamental.

unenlightened (adjective)

benighted.

unprocessed (adjective)

unprocessed.

untamed (adjective)

wild.

Sense 4 (noun)

fossilized.

Sense 5 (noun)

benighted, ignorant, backward.

Sense 6 (noun)

unpolished.

Sense 8 (noun)

uncultivated, uncultured, savage, wild, uncivilized, barbaric, barbarian, barbarous.

aborigine (noun)

aboriginal.

ancient (noun)

archaic, antediluvian, old, primeval, primordial.

old fashioned (noun)

low-tech, obsolete, old-time, out, Old World, dated, old fashioned.

person (noun)

primitive person.

primitive (noun)

primitive person, rude, noncivilised, untrained, noncivilized, crude, archaic, early.

simple (noun)

first, fundamental, rude, unpolished, unsophisticated, crude, unrefined.

uncivilized (noun)

barbarous, savage, fierce, uncultured, barbarian, simple, wild, ignorant, green, uncivilized, barbaric.

Usage examples for primitive:

• 6. fond here has its primitive meaning, foolish. - "Minor Poems by Milton", John Milton.
• They are a distinctly primitive people. - "By Right of Purchase", Harold Bindloss.
• Our primitive kitchen is a square wooden box, lined with clay, and filled with sand, upon which three or four large stones are placed to form a hearth. - "Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah", Sir Richard Francis Burton.