meaning of primitive

1. Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church.
2. Of or pertaining to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity; as, a primitive style of dress.
3. Original; primary; radical; not derived; as, primitive verb in grammar.
4. An original or primary word; a word not derived from another; -- opposed to derivative.
5. primitive A function, operator, or type which is built into a programming language or operating system, either for speed of execution or because it would be impossible to write it in the language. Primitives typically include the arithmetic and logical operations plus, minus, and, or, etc. and are implemented by a small number of machine language instructions.
6. a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick is the primitive from which `picket is ">derived"

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