primitive vs Mound Builder

Mound Builder vs primitive

primitive and Mound Builder both are nouns.

primitive is an adjective but Mound Builder is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
primitive	Yes	Yes	No	No
Mound Builder	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Mound Builder is a hyponym of primitive; that is, Mound Builder is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than primitive:

primitive: a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
Mound Builder: prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds

Other hyponyms of primitive include Aryan, Indo-European, autochthon, Basket Maker, cave dweller, cave man, caveman, troglodyte, Heidelberg man, Homo heidelbergensis, ape-man, missing link, Piltdown hoax, Piltdown man, barbarian, savage, feral man, wild man.

primitive (noun)	Mound Builder (noun)
a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms	prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds
a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

primitive (adjective)	Mound Builder (adjective)
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

Difference between primitive and Mound Builder

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