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Primitive vs Underived - What's the difference?

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Primitive is a related term of underived.


As adjectives the difference between primitive and underived

is that primitive is of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first while underived is not derived, not related.

As a noun primitive

is an original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to (derivative).

primitive

English

(wikipedia primitive)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to (derivative).
  • A member of a primitive society.
  • A simple-minded person.
  • (computing, programming) A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
  • A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
  • (mathematics) A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.

    • Related terms

    * multiprimitive * prime

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
  • Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=4 citation , passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.}}
  • (rfc-sense) Crude, obsolete.
  • (grammar) Original; primary; radical; not derived.
  • (biology) Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.

    • Derived terms

    * primitiveness

    Synonyms

    * backwards

    underived

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • not derived, not related.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1742, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=If their rights are inherent and underived , they may, by their own suffrages, encircle, with a diadem, the brows of Mr. Cushing. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1859, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Firstly,--if underived virtue be peculiar to the Deity, can it be the duty of a creature to have it?" }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Surendranath Dasgupta, title=A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Thus it is that though contact of the senses with the objects may later on be imagined to be the conditioning factor, yet the rise of knowledge as well as our notion of its validity strikes us as original, underived , immediate, and first-hand. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=December 2, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=The Sound of German, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=He held that everything in existence is composed of four underived and indestructible substances--fire, water, earth, and air--and that atmosphere is a corporeal substance, not a mere void. }}