primitive vs ape-man

ape-man vs primitive

primitive and ape-man both are nouns.

primitive is an adjective but ape-man is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
primitive	Yes	Yes	No	No
ape-man	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ape-man is a hyponym of primitive; that is, ape-man is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than primitive:

primitive: a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
ape-man: hypothetical organism formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and human beings

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

primitive (noun)	ape-man (noun)
a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms	hypothetical organism formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and human beings
a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived	a person assumed to have been raised by apes
a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

primitive (adjective)	ape-man (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 ape-man

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