Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church.

At a very early stage of development.

In biological terms, a term relating to a trait which has manifested itself in the early stages of the evolution of a species.

most basic or simple; undeveloped This flat has the most primitive facilities. primitive (n), primitiveness (n)

a person who belongs to early stage of civilization

belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"

little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"

crude or simple.

In evolutionary biology, this term often means ancestral or genealogicaly prior, yet sometimes it means simple or crude. Under a simple-to-complex evolutionary paradigm, the two senses are often confused.

an organism that has evolved little from early ancestral types Hawks and owls are more primitive birds than warblers.

A term used for the early sub-species of Equus caballus: the Asian Wild Horse, the Tarpan, the Forest Horse and the Tundra Horse.

Undeveloped or in early stages of development, undifferentiated.