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Primitial
- - Being of the first production; primitive; original.
Primitive
- adjective - a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
- a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
- a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"
- Basic
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness;
- 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"
- 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"
- used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies"
Privateer
- noun - a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation
- an officer or crew member of a privateer
Privately
- adverb - by a private person or interest; "a privately financed campaign"
- kept private or confined to those intimately concerned; "it was discussed privately between the two men"; "privately, she thought differently"; "some member of his own party hoped privately for his defeat"; "he was questioned in private"
Privation
- noun - a state of extreme poverty
- act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"
Privatise
- verb - change from governmental to private control or ownership; "The oil industry was privatized"
Privative
- - Causing privation; depriving.
Privatize
- verb - change from governmental to private control or ownership; "The oil industry was privatized"
Proactive
- adjective - (of a policy or person or action) controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than waiting to respond to it after it happens
- descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently; "proactive inhibition"; "proactive interference"