ilkel
1. primitive; pertaining to the earliest stage of development; characteristic of an early stage of development: ilkel insan primitive man. ilkel kilise the Primitive Church. ilkel bitkiler primitive plants. 2. primitive, crude, rudimentary; old-fashioned and inconvenient: Dinlenme tesisleri oldukça ilkel. Their recreational facilities are rather primitive. 3. uncouth, crude, coarse, unrefined. 4. primitive, preliterate: ilkel bir toplum a primitive society. 5. primitive, naïve, unsophisticated, simple: Tabloları ilkel bir niteliğe sahip. His paintings have a primitive quality about them. 6. (a) primitive (a European, especially an Italian, painter who worked prior to the Renaissance).