Related Words for primitive

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primary
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Adjective, Adjective
natural
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Adjective, Adjective
early
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Adjective, Adjective
simple
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Adjective, Adjective
archaic
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Adjective, Adjective, Name
rude
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Name, Adjective
untrained
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Adjective, Adjective
crude
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Adjective, Adjective, Noun
elemental
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Noun, Adjective
derivative
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Noun, Noun
rudimentary
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Adjective
unsophisticated
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Adjective
uncivilized
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Adjective
prehistoric
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Noun
primeval
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Adjective
modern
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Noun
barbaric
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Adjective
atavistic
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Adjective
barbarous
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Adjective
savage
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Noun
ancient
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Noun
rustic
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Adjective
primordial
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Adjective
antiquated
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Adjective
primal
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Adjective
untutored
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Adjective
animalistic
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Adjective
unrefined
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Adjective
unenlightened
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Adjective
bestial
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Adjective
basic
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Adjective
outmoded
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Adjective
civilized
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Adjective
sophisticated
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Adjective
antediluvian
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Adjective
animistic
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Adjective
paleolithic
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Name
inhuman
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Adjective
quaint
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Adjective
brutish
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Adjective
tribal
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Adjective
exotic
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Adjective
feeble
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Adjective
grotesque
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Adjective
savagery
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Noun
benighted
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Adjective
simplistic
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Adjective
shamanistic
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Adjective
peculiar
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Adjective
untamed
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Adjective
spartan
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Name
radix
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Noun
ancestor
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Noun
root
/
Noun
reflex
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Noun
descendant
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Noun
simplex
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Noun
cognate
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Noun
borrowing
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Noun
prefix
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Noun
hybrid
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Noun
intensive
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Adjective
preform
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Noun
radical
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Adjective
descriptor
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Noun
principle
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Noun
particle
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Noun
expletive
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Noun
etymology
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Noun
parole
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Noun
dummy
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Noun
native speaker
/x/x
Phrase, Noun
nativism
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Noun
lemma
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Noun
incipient
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Adjective
variant
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Noun
numeral
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Noun
word
/
Noun
morpheme
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Noun
substratum
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Noun
langue
/
Noun
stem
/
Noun
homologue
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Noun
expressive
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Adjective
conversion
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Noun
base
/
Noun
lexeme
//
Noun
natural language
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Phrase, Noun
type
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Noun
phonetic
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Adjective
substrate
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Noun
ame
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Verb
recursive
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Noun
request
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Verb
camping
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Noun
backward
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Adverb
recursion
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Noun
methodism
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Name
surging
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Verb
endoderm
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Noun
executes
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Verb
issue
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Verb
streak
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Noun
campsites
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Noun
gut
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Noun
invoking
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Verb
mesenchyme
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Noun
christianity
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Name
campground
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Noun
urges
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Verb
gonad
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Noun
communism
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Noun
meteorites
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Noun
barbarism
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Noun
sinking
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Verb
peoples
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Noun
ectoderm
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Noun
baptists
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Name
pharynx
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Noun
mentality
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Noun
accumulation
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Noun
reverted
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Verb
polynomial
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Noun
buddhism
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Name
nebula
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Noun
tribesmen
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Noun
progenitors
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Noun
springs
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Verb
monotheism
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Noun
societies
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Noun
vertebrates
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Noun
predicates
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Noun
reptiles
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Noun
tribes
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Noun
confirm
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Verb
promiscuity
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Noun
instincts
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Noun
specifies
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Verb
superstition
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Noun
aborigine
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Noun
ars
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Noun
artists
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Noun
aryan
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Adjective, Name
austere
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Adjective
authors
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Adjective
barbarian
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Noun, Adjective
bards
/
Noun
behaviorist
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Noun
bibles
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Noun
brutal
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Adjective
cantatas
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Noun
carvers
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Noun
cave dweller
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Phrase, Noun
caveman
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Noun
civilised
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Adjective
collocation
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Noun
elementary
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Adjective, Noun
embryonic
xx/x
Adjective
firsthand
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Adjective, Adverb
hardy
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Adjective, Noun
homemade
//
Adjective
homo erectus
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Phrase, Adjective
improvised
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Adjective
incivility
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Noun
indigenous
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Adjective
initial
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
makeshift
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Adjective, Noun
matriarchal
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Adjective
missing link
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Phrase, Noun
nomadic
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Adjective
novels
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Noun
occidental
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Noun, Adjective
original
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Adjective, Noun
patriarchal
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Adjective
polytheistic
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Adjective
premodern
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Adjective
pristine
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Adjective
prototypes
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Adjective
raw
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Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
shanty
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
sturdy
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Adjective, Noun
symphonies
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Noun
traditional
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Adjective, Noun
trans
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
translations
x/x
Verb
virgin
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Noun, Adjective
wild man
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Name, Name
wilderness
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Noun
woodcuts
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Noun
chunk
/
Noun, Verb
cluster
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Noun, Verb
vernacular
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Noun, Adjective
standard
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Adjective, Noun
literally
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Adverb
dialect
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Noun
expression
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Noun
sorta
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Adverb
no
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Noun, Adverb, Adjective
milestone
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Noun, Verb
tell
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Verb, Noun
headlines
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Noun
anymore
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Adverb