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Est. 1828
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'primitive'
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3 syllables

  • disjunctive
  • fixative
  • fricative
  • privative
  • inchoative
  • leitmotiv
  • liberative
  • dilative
  • kishinev
  • ligative
  • siccative

4 syllables

  • acquisitive
  • attributive
  • definitive
  • derivative
  • diminutive
  • duplicative
  • indicative
  • infinitive
  • inhibitive
  • initiative
  • inquisitive
  • irritative
  • prohibitive
  • retributive
  • cogitative
  • colligative
  • contributive
  • explicative
  • combinative
  • conciliative
  • designative
  • entitative
  • excitative
  • exhibitive
  • judicative
  • opiniative
  • propitiative
  • vindicative

5 syllables

  • deliberative
  • multiplicative
  • the initiative
  • continuative
  • reduplicative
  • alpha privative
  • annihilative
  • commiserative
  • first derivative
  • nonacquisitive
  • nonattributive
  • nonderivative
  • prejudicative
  • prereplicative
  • split infinitive
  • subderivative
  • subindicative
  • the indicative
  • underivative

6 syllables

  • antiderivative
  • aeroderivative
  • direct initiative
  • lost the initiative
  • partial derivative
  • second derivative
  • seize the initiative
  • take the initiative

7 syllables

  • indirect initiative
  • on one's own initiative
  • primary derivative

8 syllables

  • secondary derivative

9 syllables

  • purified protein derivative

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Adjectives for primitive:

  • churches
  • organisms
  • communism
  • cells
  • method
  • state
  • mentality
  • conditions
  • language
  • belief
  • races
  • stages
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People also search for primitive:

  • fishlike
  • carvers
  • unmodern
  • cannibalistic
  • modern
  • civilised
  • troglodytic
  • animalistic
  • behaviorist
  • rudest
  • prokaryote
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