primitive: Information About The Word 'primitive'

primitive is an acceptable dictionary word for games like scrabble, words with friends, crossword, etc.

The word 'primitive' is made up of 9 letters.

• (n) a person who belongs to early stage of civilization
• (n) a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
• (n) a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"
• (s) 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 mo
• (s) 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"
• (s) used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies"
• (s) 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"

Using the word 'primitive' in Scrabble will fetch you 16 points while using it in Words with Friends will fetch you 19 points (without taking into consideration the effect of any multipliers).

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