Definitions
used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
Word origin
From Middle English primitif, from Old French primitif, from Latin prīmitīvus (“first or earliest of its kind”), from prīmus (“first”); see prime. Doublet of primitivo.
Used in a sentence
“It may be that, living among primitive surroundings, the dormant primitive deep within the white man is drawn towards the absolute primitive in the aboriginal.”
“Out there in the primitive, white-man Rust had made his tools out of the primitive, as these stone-age people were making excellent string from the primitive.”
“A write-what-where primitive allows the attacker to write arbitrary data wherever they want in the memory”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“basic”9 letters
02“Early and simple”9 letters
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