- archaic forms of life.
- primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking.
- primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains.
- primitive mammals.
- primitive movies of the 1890s.
- primitive societies.
- the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man.
- the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe.
- `pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived.