Of animals and plants: having a simple or primitive organization (organization, n. 1a). Also of humans, people, etc.: regarded as inferior in degree…

Belonging or relating to a culture characterized by isolation, low technology, and simple social and economic organization.

A personal or family name derived from that of a mother or other female ancestor; = matronymic, n.

Of, designating, or characteristic of the time before a country's adoption of a feudal system.

Preceding or prior to the development of logic or logical reasoning; (Physical Anthropology) designating ways of thought based on myth, magic, etc.

Cultural Anthropology. Characterized by a belief in many imaginary living beings. Obsolete. rare.

prior to the development of agriculture as a means of subsistence.

occurring or existing prior to the development of complex or urban social organization.

= pre-feudal, adj.

Of or relating to (a) subculture (subculture, n. 2).

of or belonging to the earliest stage of cultural development.

Of societies: related, as an earlier society to a later one that is derived from it.

Sociology. In the theory of P. A. Sorokin (1889–1968): designating to a type of culture based on material needs and desires, and lacking in…

Sociology. Based on or relating to patrimonialism or loyalty to an individual political leader.

Of, belonging to, or designating a society that has no written language.

Situated more within; more or further inward; interior. Often with a positive force, antithetical… inner-directed adj. (Sociol.): a term coined by D…

figurative. Of or pertaining to a subculture which seeks to provide radical alternatives to the socially accepted or established mode; spec.…

of or relating to pop culture.

Of or relating to a technopolis.