S: (n) primitive (a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms) "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"
Adjective
S: (adj) 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"
S: (adj) 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"
S: (adj) primitive (used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies) "primitive societies"
S: (adj) 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"