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stone-age
adjective informal, dispprovingDefinition
› describes something that is very basic, simple, and not well developed: The organization is criticized for its surly service and stone-age software.Crude and basic
(Definition of stone-age adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- 101 adjective
- at bottom idiom
- backward adjective (NOT CLEVER/MODERN)
- bare adjective (BASIC)
- basic adjective
- crude adjective (SIMPLE)
- elemental adjective
- folksy adjective
- homespun adjective
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- Mickey Mouse adjective
- primal adjective
- rough and ready idiom
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