Adjective
1. 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. 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. used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies;
"primitive societies"4. 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"