Once
Once adjective - Having been such at some previous time.
Primitive
Primitive adjective - Belonging to or characteristic of an early level of skill or development.
Once and primitive are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Once" instead an adjective "Primitive".
Nearby Word: primitively
Both words in one sentence
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MIT's AI Lab once possessed a mainframe computer that seems to have been a primitive form of Magitek.
Source: Magitek -
In The West Wing, a reporter reveals that he was once mistaken for a deity by a primitive tribe.
Source: God Guise - Sam once remarks that if interstellar travel weren't so expensive he could become very rich trading trash between Jean and his primitive homeworld.
Source: Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap
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Primitive and Once. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/once/primitive
Once & Primitive. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/once/primitive>.
Primitive or Once. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/once/primitive.
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