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General (29 matching dictionaries)

1. primitive: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. primitive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
3. primitive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. primitive: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. primitive: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. primitive, primitive: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Primitive, primitive: Wordnik [home, info]
8. primitive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. primitive: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. primitive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. primitive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. primitive: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. primitive: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. primitive: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
15. primitive: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
16. primitive: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
17. Primitive (Cyndi Lauper song), Primitive (Neil Diamond album), Primitive (Soulfly album), Primitive (biology), Primitive (computer science), Primitive (disambiguation), Primitive (philately), Primitive (phylogenetics), Primitive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
18. Primitive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
19. primitive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
20. primitive: Rhymezone [home, info]
21. primitive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
22. primitive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
23. primitive: Free Dictionary [home, info]
24. primitive: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
25. primitive: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
26. primitive: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
27. primitive: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art (1 matching dictionary)

28. primitive: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info]

Business (1 matching dictionary)

29. primitive: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)

30. primitive: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
31. primitive: CNET Internet Glossary [home, info]
32. Primitive (integral), primitive: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

33. primitive: ABTA Brain Tumor Patients [home, info]
34. primitive: online medical dictionary [home, info]
35. primitive: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Science (7 matching dictionaries)

36. primitive: Dinosaurs [home, info]
37. Primitive: Dictionary of anthropology [home, info]
38. Primitive: Dictionary of anthropology [home, info]
39. primitive, primitive, primitive: PlanetMath Encyclopedia [home, info]
40. primitive: Anthropology dictionary [home, info]
41. primitive: Natural History Terms [home, info]
42. primitive: FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

43. Primitive: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

44. primitive: Printed Circuit Design and Manufacturing Glossary [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (primitive) ▸ noun:  a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms ("`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived") ▸ noun:  a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived ▸ noun:  a person who belongs to early stage of civilization ▸ adjective:  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") ▸ adjective:  used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies ("Primitive societies") ▸ adjective:  little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type ("Primitive mammals") ▸ adjective:  belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness ("Primitive movies of the 1890s") ▸ Also see primitivity ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to primitive ▸ Usage examples for primitive ▸ Idioms related to primitive (New!) ▸ Popular adjectives describing primitive ▸ Popular nouns described by primitive ▸ Words that often appear near primitive ▸ Rhymes of primitive ▸ Invented words related to primitive