unprimitive
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a word derived from
primitive.
primitiveadjectivebeing the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world.
Example Sentences
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In Manhattan's crowded Waldorf-Astoria a most unprimitive citizen confronted Smuts.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Their executors were sourly wondering whether the two venerable testators were not even then grinning from those far-away sepulchres in contemplation of the first feud their unprimitive castle was to know.
From The Man from Brodney's by George Barr McCutcheon