Primordial
[praɪ'mɔːdɪəl] or [praɪ'mɔrdɪəl]
Definition
(a.) First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin; as, primordial condition.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest beds of the Silurian age, corresponding to the Acadian and Potsdam periods in American geology. It is called also Cambrian, and by many geologists is separated from the Silurian.
(a.) Originally or earliest formed in the growth of an individual or organ; as, a primordial leaf; a primordial cell.
(n.) A first principle or element.
Checker: Witt
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Original, PRIMITIVE.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PRIMEVAL]
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Definition
adj. first in order: original: existing from the beginning: (anat.) in a rudimentary state: (bot.) first formed as leaves or fruit.—n. first principle or element.—ns. Primor′dialism; Primor′dium.
Typist: Winfred
Examples
- And the Old Man must have been an actor in many a primordial nightmare. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Neolithic man was nomadic in a different spirit from the mere daylight drift after food of the primordial hunter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Primordial man could have had little or no tradition before the development of speech. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They made few intelligent observations of the native methods and ideas of these primordial people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The weight of opinion inclines now towards the idea of some primordial connection of these two groups. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Primordial man probably only drifted before the winter as the days grew cold. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They seem to have made no very great advance from that primordial state, which was probably the state in which their ancestors had reached America. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Moonlight, too, was perhaps his time for love-making, as indeed it may have been for primordial man and the ground ape ancestor before him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Winfred