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primeval
[ prahy-mee-vuhl ]
adjective
- of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world:
primeval forms of life.
Synonyms: pristine, primordial, primary
primeval
/ praɪˈmiːvəl /
adjective
- of or belonging to the first age or ages, esp of the world
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Derived Forms
- priˈmevally, adverb
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Other Words From
- pri·meval·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of primeval1
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Example Sentences
Bryan Hurt in Split Images and Raymond Cruz in City Primeval are cops.
The landscape here, like all of Iceland, has a primeval majesty.
The longing for a product that we have not yet experienced strikes some primeval need, particularly in Americans.
There could never be anything friendly, anything possessing, in a land destined for a race of primeval giants.
She points to her pinions stretched over the abyss of primeval fire, her eyes blinded by its awful glare, and remains silent.
"When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy," as this earth emerged from its primeval darkness.
The organization of man renders it questionable if his primeval ancestor was arboreal to any similar extent.
He wheeled toward the deepening night, the torn and soiled blue robe clinging to him as to the figure of a primeval god.
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