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primal

[ prahy-muhl ]

adjective

  1. first; original; primeval:

    primal eras before the appearance of life on earth.

  2. of first importance; fundamental:

    the primal resources of a nation.



primal

/ ˈpraɪməl /

adjective

  1. first or original
  2. chief or most important


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Other Words From

  • non·primal adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of primal1

From the Medieval Latin word prīmālis, dating back to 1535–45. See prime, -al 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of primal1

C17: from Medieval Latin prīmālis, from Latin prīmus first

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Example Sentences

And to this day, liberals in the political world use the name “Willie Horton” to describe an appeal to primal racial fears.

Levine broods in the meat locker, mad with desire for Prinsloo, whose appetite for him is equally primal.

I wanted to fill her with pain and primal rage, which was really fun for me.

Because primal violence is justified by religious belief, “the offenders have no remorse, no fear, and are extremely confident.”

The “exotic” foreign civilization is somehow more natural, more primal, more sensual, the way people really ought to live.

The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.

The primal rigidity of the straight line yields later on to the freedom of an organ.

From that day to this, man has been occupied in unfolding this method, and has advanced enormously beyond his primal state.

Anaximenes, seeing that animals die without air, thought that air was the great primal cause.

Whatever you said to him sank without splash into this almost primal calm and was lost to your view forever.

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