[
US
/ˈpɹaɪməɫ/
]
[ UK /pɹˈaɪməl/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈaɪməl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
aboriginal forests
primordial forms of life
primordial matter
primal eras before the appearance of life on earth
the forest primeval -
serving as an essential component
a cardinal rule
the central cause of the problem
an example that was fundamental to the argument
computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure
How To Use primal In A Sentence
- I suggest that thinking begins with frank analysis of our own very personal primal experiences of the country.
- The play's chorus employs movement and primal rhythms, and performs a powerful ritual ceremony to bless Yerma's fertility, with Kevin MacDonnell as its tribal leader.
- What had touched the world's hearts was the ethereal immaterialism of their secluded world and something primal in the music they sang.
- This time the objects have undergone a process of distillation into primal forms. The Times Literary Supplement
- God without Being: "the Ungrund is contaminated from the start by the universe it subtends, making the impulse to misrecognize the groundless as the primal ground, and thereby firmly reappropriate it to ontotheology, quite irresistible"; Hegel on Buddhism
- Pranava, Aum, is the root mantra and primal sound from which all creation issues forth.
- Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just the sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
- You are in the grip of something very primal. Times, Sunday Times
- Careful studies of silt prove beyond doubt that its primal cause is the removal of the forest cover, such as underbrush, weeds, and grasses, along the streams, which allows the rainfall to run off rapidly. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.
- Again he experienced the heightened awareness and sharpening of the senses, which always accompanied his bestial transformation into a primal killer.