primitive (n.)
- abecedarian
- aboriginal
- aborigine
- ancient
- animal
- antediluvian
- anthropoid
- ape-man
- autochthon
- barbarian
- basic
- beginning
- budding
- bushman
- caveman
- central
- cognate
- constituent
- crude
- derivation
- derivative
- doublet
- early
- endemic
- eponym
- essential
- etymon
- first
- fore
- formative
- former
- fundamental
- germinal
- gut
- hominid
- humanoid
- immemorial
- inaugural
- inchoative
- indigene
- infant
- initial
- initiative
- late
- local
- material
- natal
- native
- old
- olden
- once
- original
- past
- primary
- primate
- prime
- prior
- radical
- raw
- recent
- root
- rough
- rude
- savage
- simple
- substantive
- then
- troglodyte
- ur
- vernacular
- wild
primitive (adj.)
- abecedarian
- aboriginal
- ancestral
- ancient
- animal
- antediluvian
- antenatal
- anthropoid
- archaic
- atavistic
- autochthonous
- barbarian
- barbaric
- barbarous
- basal
- basic
- basilar
- beginning
- bestial
- brutal
- brutish
- budding
- central
- childlike
- coarse
- cognate
- constituent
- constitutive
- creative
- crucial
- crude
- derivative
- earliest
- early
- elemental
- elementary
- embryonic
- endemic
- erstwhile
- essential
- fetal
- first
- fore
- formative
- former
- fundamental
- generative
- genetic
- germinal
- homegrown
- hominid
- ill-bred
- immemorial
- impolite
- inaugural
- inceptive
- inchoate
- inchoative
- incipient
- indigenous
- infantile
- initial
- initiative
- initiatory
- introductory
- inventive
- late
- local
- material
- naive
- nascent
- natal
- native
- native-born
- noncivilized
- old
- olden
- onetime
- original
- outlandish
- parturient
- past
- patriarchal
- persistent
- postnatal
- pregnant
- prehistoric
- prenatal
- previous
- primal
- primary
- prime
- primeval
- primordial
- prior
- pristine
- procreative
- quondam
- radical
- raw
- recent
- rough
- rough-and-ready
- rude
- rudimentary
- savage
- seminal
- simple
- simplistic
- sometime
- substantial
- substantive
- then
- uncivil
- uncivilized
- uncombed
- uncouth
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- underived
- underlying
- undeveloped
- unkempt
- unpolished
- unrefined
- unschooled
- unsophisticated
- untamed
- untaught
- untrained
- untutored
- ur
- vernacular
- wild
