What are some opposite words for primal?
Antonyms for primal
ˈpraɪ məlpri·mal
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term primal.
Wiktionary
primaladjective
Synonyms:
primaeval, primordial, primary, primeval, aboriginalprimaladjective
Being the first in time, or history.
primal man
Synonyms:
aboriginal, primary, primordial, primaeval, primevalprimaladjective
Being of greatest importance; primary.
Synonyms:
aboriginal, primeval, primaeval, primary, primordial
English Synonyms and Antonyms
primal
Aboriginal (Latin ab, from, origo, origin) signifies pertaining to the aborigines or earliest known inhabitants of a country in the widest sense, including not merely human beings but inferior animals and plants as well. Autochthonic (Greek autos, self, and chthōn, earth) signifies sprung from the earth, especially from the soil of one's native land. Primeval (Latin primum, first, and ævum, age), signifies strictly belonging to the first ages, earliest in time, but often only the earliest of which man knows or conceives, immemorial. Aboriginal, autochthonic, and primeval combine the meanings of ancient and original; aboriginal inhabitants, autochthonic races, primeval forests. Prime and primary may signify either first in time, or more frequently first in importance; primary has also the sense of elementary or preparatory; we speak of a prime minister, a primary school. Primal is chiefly poetic, in the sense of prime; as, the primal curse. Primordial is first in an order of succession or development; as, a primordial leaf. Primitive frequently signifies having the original characteristics of that which it represents, as well as standing first in time; as, the primitive church. Primitive also very frequently signifies having the original or early characteristics without remoteness in time. Primeval simplicity is the simplicity of the earliest ages; primitive simplicity may be found in retired villages now. Pristine is an elegant word, used almost exclusively in a good sense of that which is original and perhaps ancient; as, pristine purity, innocence, vigor. That which is both an original and natural product of a soil or country is said to be indigenous; that which is actually produced there is said to be native, though it may be of foreign extraction; humming-birds are indigenous to America; canaries may be native, but are not indigenous. Immemorial refers solely to time, independently of quality, denoting, in legal phrase, "that whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary;" as, an immemorial custom; an immemorial abuse. Compare OLD.
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Antonyms:
adventitious, exotic, foreign, fresh, late, modern, new, novel, recentSynonyms:
aboriginal, ancient, autochthonic, immemorial, indigenous, native, old, original, patriarchal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, uncreated
Princeton's WordNet
cardinal, central, fundamental, key, primaladjective
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"
Antonyms:
middle, unimportant, lateSynonyms:
fundamental, primeval, primordial, key, profound, cardinal, underlying, central, rudimentary, aboriginal, primaevalaboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval, primordialadjective
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"
Antonyms:
late, unimportant, middleSynonyms:
fundamental, primordial, primeval, native, aboriginal, cardinal, central, primaeval, key
How to use primal in a sentence?
It's a primal need to write on walls to communicate with the people around you.
It is a primal emotion, fear, one that we all experience. And it can be contagious, spreading through societies, and through nations, for me, and I know for so many of you, faith is the great cure for fear. Jesus is a good cure for fear. God gives believers the power, the love, the sound mind required to conquer any fear. And what more important moment for that faith than right now?
Its raw, its in its primal state right now, everyone doesnt know what to expect, which is awesome.
Black men are always perceived as being taller, more aggressive, or violent, more prone to conflict, more athletic than they actually are, and it's those social perceptions that have been linked to forms of dehumanization -- likening them to apes, sorts of primal beasts and animals -- that fit into how we think of Black men, both as athletes and as kind of super predators, as superhuman.
When people sing back the words that you’ve written that have been so personal to you… and they sing them back with such confidence and belief, you’re like ‘Oh God I’m not alone in my own problems,’ and it makes me feel connected to humans, and at our primal state we all we want is connection. It’s the only reason that we do anything that we do.
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