Primitive is valid Scrabble Word

Is primitive a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for PRIMITIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:

an uncivilised person
a person belonging to a preliterate, non-industrial society
a pre-Renaissance painter, or one who imitates the pre-Renaissance style.
an artist deliberately employing a simple, naive style
a painting by a primitive artist, or an object in a primitive style
an algebraic or geometric expression from which another is derived; a curve of which another is the polar or reciprocal.
any of a set of basic geometric shapes which may be generated in computer graphics
An original or primary word; a word not derived from another; -- opposed to derivative.
a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived

a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
primitive person or thing
a word, base, or root from which another is historically derived.

ADJECTIVE:

belonging to earliest times or the earlier stages of development
relating to, denoting, or preserving the character of an early stage in the evolutionary or historical development of something
relating to or denoting a preliterate, non-industrial society or culture characterized by simple social and economic organization
(of behaviour or emotion) apparently originating in unconscious needs or desires and unaffected by objective reasoning
of or denoting a simple, naive style of art that deliberately rejects sophisticated artistic techniques
very basic or unsophisticated in terms of comfort, convenience, or efficiency
not developed or derived from anything else
denoting a word, base, or root from which another is historically derived.
(of an algebraic or geometric expression) from which another is derived, or which is not itself derived from another.
(of a part or structure) in the first or early stage of formation or growth; rudimentary.
of an early simple stage of development
Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church.
Of or pertaining to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity; as, a primitive style of dress.
Original; primary; radical; not derived; as, primitive verb in grammar.
belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

not derive; original, primary; assumed as a basis; axiomatic

Words related to PRIMITIVE

primitively21 primitiveness20 primitives17

Words that contain PRIMITIVE

primitives17 primitively21 primitiveness20 primitivenesses22

How to use PRIMITIVE in a sentence

A PRIMITIVE word is one that is not derived from another word.
It would probably occur to him, that he would be likely to find the precautions he was in search of in the primitive compact between the States.
He may, at any time, abandon the refined and artistic methods of high finance for primitive, crude and direct means unworthy of his talents.
From time to time they are still seen to reappear with their primitive manners and passions.
He lived an exceedingly isolated, primitive, and laborious life for eleven years.
The sculpture is exceedingly uncouth and primitive.
In these wild and most picturesque places, the Hindoos cannot give you a dinner, even of the most primitive character.
Some new race was always catching the inspiration and feeling and expressing it with primitive sensibility and passion.
It is a custom which comes from primitive times, and is universal in the greater part of the Catholic Church.
The world arose out of a sort of primitive world-gruel.

She set forth the cans and baskets that formed the camp dinner-set and served the primitive meal.
Teresa, and had received from Heaven the mission to restore the Carmel to its primitive perfection.
Fine forests of pine, oak, cedar, and maple surround it, and make it an ideal dwelling-place for a peaceful, primitive people.
They reminded us of similar stone arrangements we had come upon in Sonora, but these were larger and more primitive.
The women make girdles and blankets on primitive looms, inserting characteristic designs in the weaving.
He wrote two romances founded on Western primitive life, and a history of the Mississippi Valley.
But primitive men and their direct ancestors lived in small groups.
XXII EVOLUTION OF PUNISHMENT Among primitive peoples the penal code was always short.
Until the year 1827, the island lay forsaken and neglected in its primitive condition, neither the Portuguese nor Spaniards having thought it worth their consideration.
In the legal systems of primitive people and long afterward, only natural persons had legal rights, could make contracts, have property, and carry on a business.
Those who came to California these later years will not many of them see the old apparatus and appliances which were used in saving the gold in those primitive days.
Marche as probably the primitive race of the country.
After the coarse conceptions of primitive fear, more clear-sighted men foresaw it more clearly.
In 1717 Whiston founded a Society for Promoting Primitive Christianity, and its meetings were held at his house in Cross Street, Hatton Garden.
In the long run public opinion determines all wage, but in more primitive times and places, private opinion, personal judgment of some man in power, determines.

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