Hyphenation of primitive

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word primitive? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

prim-i-tive

Definitions of primitive:

1.	A person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
2.	A mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
3.	A word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms `pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived
4.	Belonging to an early stage of technical development Characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness The crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man Primitive movies of the 1890s Primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains
5.	Little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type Archaic forms of life Primitive mammals The okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe
6.	Used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies Primitive societies
7.	Of or created by one without formal training Simple or naive in style Primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking

Synonyms of primitive:

adj	crude, rude, early
adj	archaic, early
adj	noncivilized, noncivilised
adj	untrained
noun	primitive person, person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
noun	formula, expression
noun	word

Last hyphenations of this language

meisje original Anti-gothicist trugmallion monumental ambivalency nicknack sumptuous tapemen basal obscureness solon drudge anomaly rally esthesis matter uppiled parturition

Hyphenator

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