primal
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6.8
- adjective
- /ˈpraɪməl/
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primitivo
- Occasionally though, it's something more, something primal and ageless.
- primal scene
- primal cultures
- primal societies
If we go back to our primal days, they didn't have DoorDash.
- If we go back to our primal days, they didn't have DoorDash.
- You look primal right now, like Neanderthal ish.
- I'm going to go back to the our primal friends, go back to our cave friends.
- Now, what was the, the primal, you know, spell for immortality that's being referenced here?
Examples
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He felt it on some sort of primal level.
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- It must be like a primal thing.
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Getting in the skin of this primal woman is a lot of fun.
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- It's human nature, it's primal.
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So these are, these are the primal values and the dual values coming up like this.
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I'm going to go back to the our primal friends, go back to our cave friends.
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The age turns new again, justice comes back and the primal years of man and the new race descends from heaven.
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We cannot make out what it is, but it elicits a primal terror.
Fiction book (1990) -
Countless expressions of this kind can be cited from primal cultures all over the globe.
Academic text (1991) -
The primal forests of the Amazon have existed for millions of years.
Synonyms
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8.9
It exists from the very beginning before other things exist
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6.5
Of the first people or things living in a region
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8.8
Relating to the first time on Earth before people lived
Antonyms
How Ancient
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word primal also comes from the Latin primus, meaning 'first'. Like primitive, which talks about very early things, primal can mean original or existing from the earliest time.