primitive vs troglodyte

troglodyte vs primitive

primitive and troglodyte both are nouns.

primitive is an adjective but troglodyte is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
primitive	Yes	Yes	No	No
troglodyte	Yes	No	No	No

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

primitive: a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
troglodyte: someone who lives in a cave

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

primitive (noun)	troglodyte (noun)
a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms	someone who lives in a cave
a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived	one who lives in solitude
a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

primitive (adjective)	troglodyte (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 troglodyte

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