primitive person

/ˌprɪmədɪv ˌpʌrsn/

Other forms: primitive persons

Definitions of primitive person

1. noun

   a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
   synonyms: primitive

   types:

   Aryan, Indo-European

   a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European

   autochthon

   the earliest known inhabitants of a region

   Basket Maker

   early Amerindians related to the Pueblo; known for skill in making baskets

   cave dweller, cave man, caveman, troglodyte

   someone who lives in a cave

   Heidelberg man, Homo heidelbergensis

   a type of primitive man who lived in Europe

   ape-man, missing link

   hypothetical organism formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and human beings

   Mound Builder

   prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds

   Piltdown hoax, Piltdown man

   a supposedly primitive man later proven to be a hoax

   barbarian, savage

   a member of an uncivilized people

   feral man, wild man

   a person who is not socialized

   ape-man

   a person assumed to have been raised by apes

   anthropophagite, anthropophagus, cannibal, man-eater

   a person who eats human flesh

   head-shrinker, headhunter

   a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies

   hunter-gatherer

   a member of a hunting and gathering society

   Vandal

   a member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455

   wolf boy

   a male person assumed to have been raised by wolves

   type of:

   individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

   a human being