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| Main Entry: | primitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ancient, original |
| Synonyms: | archaic, basic, earliest, early, elementary, essential, first, fundamental, old, primal, primary, primeval, primordial, pristine, underlying, undeveloped, substratal, underivative, underived, unevolved |
| Antonyms: | current, modern, new, present |
| Main Entry: | primitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | barbaric, crude |
| Synonyms: | animal, austere, barbarian, barbarous, childlike, fierce, ignorant, naive, natural, raw, rough, rude, rudimentary, savage, simple, uncivilized, uncultivated, uncultured, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unlearned, unrefined, unsophisticated, untamed, untaught, untrained, wild, atavistic, brutish, nonliterate, preliterate, undomesticated, untutored, vestigial |
| Antonyms: | cultured, modern, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | aboriginal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | belonging to one, existing in a place since prehistory |
| Synonyms: | ancient, earliest, endemic, first, indigenous, native, original, primary, primeval, primitive, primordial |
| Antonyms: | foreign |
| Main Entry: | aborigine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | first inhabitant |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, native, primitive, autochthon, bushman, indigene |
| Main Entry: | antediluvian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | out-of-date; prehistoric |
| Synonyms: | ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, hoary, obsolete, old, old-fashioned, passé, primeval, primitive, primordial, timeworn, venerable, age-old |
| Antonyms: | modern, new, up-to-date, young |
| Main Entry: | antiquarian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old, ancient |
| Synonyms: | aged, antique, archaic, hoary, obsolete, primitive, timeworn, venerable |
| Antonyms: | modern, new, young |
| Main Entry: | archaic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very old |
| Synonyms: | ancient, antiquated, antique, bygone, obsolete, old-fashioned, outmoded, passé, primitive, superannuated, olden, out of date |
| Antonyms: | current, modern, new, present, young |
| Main Entry: | barbarian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, savage |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, barbarous, boorish, brutal, coarse, cruel, inhuman, merciless, primitive, rough, rude, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unsophisticated, untamed, vicious, vulgar, wild, lowbrow, philistine |
| Antonyms: | civilized, cultured, educated, humane, kind, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | barbaric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, savage |
| Synonyms: | barbarian, barbarous, boorish, brutal, coarse, cruel, fierce, graceless, inhuman, primitive, rough, rude, tasteless, uncivilized, uncouth, vulgar, wild, lowbrow |
| Notes: | barbaric pertains to crudeness and uncivility (based on Greek barbaros 'foreign'); barbarous pertains to cruelty, harshness, and immorality |
| Main Entry: | barbarous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, savage |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, coarse, cruel, ferocious, heartless, ignorant, inhuman, monstrous, primitive, rough, rude, ruthless, sadistic, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, unsophisticated, vicious, vulgar, wicked, wild, brutish, inhumane, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | civilized, cultured, educated, kind, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | basic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | elementary, fundamental |
| Synonyms: | basal, capital, central, chief, elemental, essential, indispensable, inherent, intrinsic, key, main, necessary, primary, primitive, principal, radical, underlying, vital, substratal |
| Antonyms: | additional, extra, nonessential, outside, peripheral, secondary, inessential |
| Main Entry: | cannibal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beast, beastlike human |
| Synonyms: | aborigine, brute, ogre, primitive, ruffian, savage, anthropophaginian, anthropophagite, anthropophagus, bush dweller, cruel person, head-hunter, ogress |
| Main Entry: | colonial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pioneering, relating to a nonindependent or new territory |
| Synonyms: | crude, dependent, dominion, emigrant, frontier, immigrant, new, pilgrim, pioneer, primitive, provincial, puritan, territorial, uncultured, unsettled, unsophisticated, wild, early American, outland, prerevolutionary, transplanted |
| Antonyms: | modern, new |
| Main Entry: | elementary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simple, basic |
| Synonyms: | ABCs, abecedarian, basal, beginning, child's play, clear, duck soup*, easy, elemental, essential, facile, foundational, fundamental, initial, introductory, meat and potatoes*, original, plain, prefatory, preliminary, primary, primitive, primo, rudimentary, simplest, simplex, simplified, straightforward, substratal, uncomplex, uncomplicated, underlying |
| Antonyms: | abstruse, advanced, complex, complicated, compound, difficult, hard, intricate, involved, secondary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fierce |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, menacing |
| Synonyms: | angry, animal, ape, awful, barbarous, bloodthirsty, blustery, boisterous, bold, brutal, cruel, cutthroat*, dangerous, enraged, fell, feral, ferocious, fiery, frightening, furious, horrible, impetuous, infuriated, intense, malevolent, malign, murderous, passionate, powerful, primitive, raging, raving, relentless, savage, stormy, strong, tempestuous, terrible, threatening, truculent, tumultous/tumultuous, uncontrollable, untamed, vehement, venomous, vicious, wild, brutish, flipped, howling, tigerish |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, kind, meek, nonviolent, peaceful, tame, tender, unthreatening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fundamental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | basic, important |
| Synonyms: | axiomatic, basal, bottom, cardinal, central, constitutional, crucial, elemental, elementary, essential, first, indispensable, integral, intrinsic, key, major, necessary, organic, original, paramount, primary, prime, primitive, primordial, principal, radical, requisite, rudimentary, significant, structural, supporting, theoretical, underlying, vital, axiological, bottom-line, constitutive, foundational, grass-roots, meat-and-potatoes, substratal, substrative, sustaining, underived |
| Antonyms: | additional, advanced, auxiliary, extra, minor, secondary, subordinate, trivial, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | indigenous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | native, inborn |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, autochthonous, congenital, domestic, endemic, homegrown, inbred, inherent, inherited, innate, natural, original, primitive, chthonic, connate, unacquired |
| Antonyms: | alien, foreign |
| Main Entry: | medieval |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having to do with the Middle Ages; old |
| Synonyms: | Gothic, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, old, old-fashioned, primitive, unenlightened, feudal |
| Antonyms: | modern |
| Main Entry: | old-fashioned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antiquated |
| Synonyms: | ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, behind the times*, behind the times, bygone, corny*, dated, dead*, dowdy*, extinct, moldy*, musty, neglected, obsolescent, obsolete, obsolete, odd*, old, old-time, out*, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, outmoded, passé*, passé, past, primitive, rococo*, superannuated, unfashionable, vintage, demoded, disapproved, démodé, grown old, not current, not modern, not with it, of old, of olden days, of the old school, of the old school, old-fangled, old-hat, olden, oldfangled, out of it, out of style, out-of-style, outworn, unstylish |
| Antonyms: | contemporary, current, in vogue, modern, new |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | organic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | basic, natural |
| Synonyms: | animate, basal, biological, constitutional, elemental, essential, fundamental, inherent, innate, integral, live, living, necessary, original, primary, prime, primitive, principal, structural, vital, amoebic, anatomical, biotic, cellular, nuclear, plasmic |
| Antonyms: | inorganic, man-made, unnatural |
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