Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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ape-man | Yes | No | No | No |
primitive | Yes | Yes | No | No |
ape-man (noun) | primitive (noun) |
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hypothetical organism formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and human beings | a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms |
a person assumed to have been raised by apes | a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived |
a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization |
ape-man (adjective) | primitive (adjective) |
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used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies | |
of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style | |
little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type | |
belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness |