primal
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6.2
- adjective
- /ˈpraɪməl/
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fundamental
- The primal instinct for survival drives many animals to migrate during harsh winters.
- a primal desire
- a primal scream
- primal forces
They're bearing the weight of some sort of primal guilt upon them.
- They're bearing the weight of some sort of primal guilt upon them.
- Not really, but there's something very primal about smell.
- Now we're here into this, you know, primal need for movement.
- And when he opens the door, you just called it the primal part of ourselves.
- Remember I told you about the fear rhythm, primal survival energy?
- Like what is the scene where they were rejected in some really primal, deep way?
- I don't think there's a more primal form of sport, modern day gladiators.
- Our bodies are the same primal, have the same primal needs.
- And of course, it is the IT is the primal, it's the primal urge.
Examples
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Moving into a house is one of the primal events in the narrative of life.
Academic text (2011) -
It's something primal, something basic.
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Now we're here into this, you know, primal need for movement.
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Our bodies are the same primal, have the same primal needs.
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That was such a great, just primal, just exciting moment.
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So even that is a primal sort of communication.
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So you talk a lot about primal things in your relationships.
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OK, so I got all the primal needs cover at a high level.
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Though being realized in very different degrees, it is a primal category of human reality.
Academic text (1990) -
At the broad base of what people want are the primal urges: fear, sex, hunger, aggression, and so on.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
∞
2.0
Very important for something to work or succeed
∞
2.5
Being most important or basic
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3.8
Of the best quality and most important
536
3.5
Very important and necessary for something to work
528
2.1
Very important and needed for something to work
403
3.5
Necessary for life or for something to succeed
36
6.7
A natural, basic part of a person or thing
29
5.0
Very important and basic to how something works
24
4.0
Very necessary for a decision or success
15
5.2
Relating to the most basic part of something
Antonyms
How Fundamental
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word primal comes from the Latin primus, meaning 'first'. Think of prime or primary — something 'first' is the most basic or most important, so primal means fundamental or essential.