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Definition of Primitive person
1. Noun. A person who belongs to an early stage of civilization.
Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul
Specialized synonyms: Aryan, Indo-european, Autochthon, Basket Maker, Cave Dweller, Cave Man, Caveman, Troglodyte, Heidelberg Man, Homo Heidelbergensis, Ape-man, Missing Link, Mound Builder, Piltdown Hoax, Piltdown Man, Barbarian, Savage, Feral Man, Wild Man
Derivative terms: Primitive, Primitive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Primitive Person
Literary usage of Primitive person
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1889)
"... "primitive consciousness exists in primitive forms of matter and constitutes
a primitive person, or Deity ;" while the latter maintains that the mind of ..."
2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1921)
"... a primitive person to rumors of a lugubrious nature. For instance, he tenaciously
sticks to the belief that the present industrial deadlock is ..."
3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"... of a primitive person to rumors of a lugubrious nature. For instance, he
tenaciously sticks to the belief that the present industrial deadlock is the ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"Even the nuts or raisins which filled the pockets of this primitive person, and
which he divided among us with many a clap on the head and benediction, ..."
5. A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology by Jacob Bryant (1807)
"•who \vas represented by many writers as a just man ; and who lived at the renewal
of time : and he says, that this primitive person was supposed to have ..."
6. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1867)
"There is no alternative left me but to assume a primitive person, ie a rational
being without any beginning, who lowered himself to them and educated them, ..."
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