People and roles

Synonyms for primitive

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective · Reason line included

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelinePeople and roles

little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

The okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

archaic

Same sentence, swapped: The okapi is a short-necked archaic cousin of the giraffe.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for primitive as it is used in the sentence above.

naive
initiative
elementary

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Closest first: other people and roles words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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