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What is the adjective for primitive?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb primitivize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

primitive
  1. Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
  2. Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
  3. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) Crude, obsolete.
  4. (grammar) Original; primary; radical; not derived.
  5. (biology) Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
  6. (mathematics) Not derived from another of the same type
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “The egg-laying platypus and its cousin, the anteater, along with marsupials, make up the most primitive group of living mammals.”
      “The notion of an anthropomorphic god was a primitive relic of a time before science had revealed the insignificant place of our earth in the universe.”
      “However, he was not at first as interested in the Fine Arts of painting and drawing as he was with the exotic primitive arts that were being collected from South Sea Islands at that time.”
primitivist
  1. Exhibiting or practicing primitivism, the advocacy of primitive over refined forms
primitivistic
  1. Of or pertaining to primitivism.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Ms. Gallinari, a Brazilian artist who lives in Argentina, has used black crayon to cover the gallery walls with fields of illegible writing punctuated by primitivistic signs and figures.”
      “A heavy, lumbering motive introduces the Intermezzo, whose music of spiky dissonances, primitivistic gestures and great heaving masses of sound surely belie its naïve title.”
      “At times Dupont de Nemours seems to identify it with a primitivistic past.”
primitivized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of primitivize
primitivizing
  1. present participle of primitivize
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