late vs primitive

late

adj
  • Recent — relative to the noun it modifies. 

  • Not having had an expected menstrual period. 

  • Associated with the end of a period. 

  • Levied as a surcharge on a payment received after a deadline. 

  • Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Generally must be preceded by a possessive or an article, commonly "the"; see usage notes. Can itself only precede the person's name, never follow it.) 

  • Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office. 

  • Specifically, near the end of the day. 

  • Near the end of a period of time. 

  • Of a star or class of stars, cooler than the sun. 

  • Not arriving or occurring until after an expected time. 

noun
  • A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night. 

adv
  • After a deadline has passed, past a designated time. 

  • Not long ago; just now. 

  • Formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit. 

primitive

adj
  • Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity. 

  • Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution. 

  • Crude, obsolete. 

  • Not derived from another of the same type 

  • Original; primary; radical; not derived. 

  • Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first. 

noun
  • An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative. 

  • A simple-minded person. 

  • A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures. 

  • A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed. 

  • Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language. 

  • A member of a primitive society. 

  • A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative. 

How often have the words late and primitive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )