preprimitive

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ primitive

Adjective

preprimitive (not comparable)

1. 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.

   • 2019 October 8, Robert Frost, A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost (Leather-bound Classics)‎^[1], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN:

     […] John Smith remarked them as he coasted by / Dangling their legs and fishing off a wharf / At the Isles of Shoals, and satisfied himself
     They weren't Red Indians but veritable
     Pre-primitives of the white race, dawn people,
     Like those who furnished Adam's sons with wives; […]

2. (mathematics) Of a variety: not itself primitive, but whose proper subvarieties are all primitive.