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primal 音标拼音: [pr'ɑɪməl] a. 第一的,最初的,原始的 第一的,最初的,原始的 primal adj 1: 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" [ synonym: { cardinal}, { central}, { fundamental}, { key}, { primal}] 2: having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state; " aboriginal forests"; " primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; " the forest primeval"; " primordial matter"; " primordial forms of life" [ synonym: { aboriginal}, { primal}, { primeval}, { primaeval}, { primordial}] Primal \ Pri" mal\, a. [ LL. primalis, fr. L. primus the first. See { Prime}, a.] First; primary; original; chief. [ 1913 Webster] It hath the primal eldest curse upon it. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] The primal duties shine aloft like stars. -- Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster] 154 Moby Thesaurus words for " primal": ab ovo, abecedarian, aboriginal, antenatal, arch, atavistic, austere, autochthonous, banner, bare, basal, basic, basilar, beginning, bodily, born, budding, capital, cardinal, central, champion, chaste, chief, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constituent, constitutional, constitutive, creative, crowning, crucial, dominant, elemental, elementary, embryonic, essential, fetal, first, focal, foremost, formative, foundational, fundamental, generative, genetic, germinal, gestatory, great, gut, headmost, hegemonic, hereditary, homely, homespun, homogeneous, in embryo, in its infancy, in ovo, in the blood, in the bud, inaugural, inborn, inbred, incarnate, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, indigenous, indivisible, infant, infantile, inherited, initial, initiative, initiatory, innate, instinctive, instinctual, introductory, inventive, irreducible, leading, magisterial, main, master, material, mere, monolithic, nascent, natal, native, native to, natural, natural to, of a piece, of the essence, organic, original, overruling, paramount, parturient, physical, plain, postnatal, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prenatal, preponderant, prevailing, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, primordial, principal, pristine, procreative, protogenic, pure, pure and simple, radical, ranking, rudimental, rudimentary, ruling, seminal, severe, simon- pure, simple, single, sovereign, spare, star, stark, stellar, substantial, substantive, supereminent, temperamental, topflight, unadorned, uncluttered, underlying, undifferenced, undifferentiated, uniform, ur
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