primal
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~ 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"
primary
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~ not derived from or reducible to something else; basic; "a primary instinct"
primary
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~ most important element; "the chief aim of living"; "the main doors were of solid glass"; "the principal rivers of America"; "the principal example"; "policemen were primary targets"; "the master bedroom"; "a master switch"
primary
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~ of or being the essential or basic part; "an elementary need for love and nurturing"; "a basal reader"
primary
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~ of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary; "primary goals"; "a primary effect"; "primary sources"; "a primary interest"
prime
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~ of superior grade; "choice wines"; "prime beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches"
prime
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~ first in rank or degree; "an architect of premier rank"; "the prime minister"
prime
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~ used of the first or originating agent; "prime mover"
prime
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~ being at the best stage of development; "our manhood's prime vigor"- Robert Browning
prime
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~ of or relating to or being an integer that cannot be factored into other integers; "prime number"
primed
— Adjective
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~ (usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed; "in no fit state to continue"; "fit to drop"; "laughing fit to burst"; "she was fit to scream"; "primed for a fight"; "we are set to go at any time"
primeval
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~ 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"
primiparous
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~ of or relating to a woman who has given birth only once
primitive
— Adjective
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~ used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies"
primitive
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~ little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
primitive
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~ belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
primitive
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~ of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style; "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking"
primo
— Adjective
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~ the best of its kind
primordial
— Adjective
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~ 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"