Primal Definition

prīməl
adjective
First in time; original; primitive.
Webster's New World
First in importance; primary.
Webster's New World
Fundamental; basic.
The primal urge to procreate.
Webster's New World

(meat trade) Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts.

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Origin of Primal

  • Medieval Latin prīmālis from Latin prīmus first per1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Medieval Latin primalis, from primus, first.

    From Wiktionary

Primal Sentence Examples

  • There was something primal in his low growl that made her body boil.

  • Maybe it was a primal need to replicate.

  • All conscience effort to think fled and was replaced by a new instinct, the primal need to feed.

  • A cold shiver went down his spine just thinking about it; a primal fear of dark and dank places.

  • In this way we, as it were, bring the causal or primal term and its remotest dependent immediately together, and raise a derivative knowledge into one which is primary and intuitive.

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Words Starting With

PPRPRI

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With P6 Letter Words Ending With L