preprimitive

English

From pre- +‎ primitive.

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.
- 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; […]
(mathematics) Of a variety: not itself primitive, but whose proper subvarieties are all primitive.