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primitive
Synonyms and Antonyms of primitive
- primitive wooden tools were used before the Iron Age
crude, low, rude, rudimentary
complex, complicated, intricate, involved, sophisticated
full-blown, grown, mature, matured, perfected, ripe, ripened
civilized, cultivated, enlightened, refined
contemporary, current, latest, mod, modern, modernistic, new, newfangled, new-fashioned, novel, now, present-day, space-age, state-of-the-art, supermodern, ultramodern, up-to-date
- a primitive period in church history when members still lived in communes
budding, embryonic, germinal, infant
aged, age-old, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, dateless, hoary, old, prehistoric (also prehistorical)
- her taste in art was still primitive, but she knew schlock when she saw it
aw-shucks, dewy, dewy-eyed, green, ingenuous, innocent, naïf (or naif), naive (or naïve), simple, simpleminded, uncritical, unknowing, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary, unworldly, wide-eyed
critical, cynical, doubting, incredulous, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, unconvinced
careful, cautious, guarded, leery (also leary), wary, watchful
down-to-earth, hardheaded, pragmatic (also pragmatical), realistic, sober
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