preprimitive
English
Etymology
pre- + primitive
Adjective
preprimitive (not comparable)
- Before a primitive age.
- 2009, Ana Lucia Araujo, Living History: Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery (page 73)
- The Stony Hill Cemetery, lying beyond the “heavily wooded areas of maple oak,” remains in an essentially preprimitive state.
- 2009, Ana Lucia Araujo, Living History: Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery (page 73)
- (mathematics) Of a variety: not itself primitive, but whose proper subvarieties are all primitive.