Primal

Quick meaning: Primal is an adjective meaning Being the first in time or in history.

Meaning

Being the first in time or in history.

More Meanings

1. Of greatest importance; primary.
2. (meat trade) Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts.
3. A primal cut (of meat).
4. To take part in primal therapy.

Example Sentences

Primaling on the infant level seems so genuinely babyish that the unsophisticated observer may mistake it for psychotic behavior.

“I think I trigger a lot of their primal rage,” Mr. Greenwald said, referring to Brazilians who support the president. “They view me as someone who deserves to be punished.”

One of my patients told me of an acquaintance who primaled in the shopping center. Janov described a patient who primaled on the tennis court. Apparently, once initiated, patients primal in any place at any time for the rest of their lives.

The most primal motion of all, of course, is vertical—a steady eternal fall into the infinity of space; speed cannot be ascribed to them, since, given the infinity of space and the absolute steadiness of the fall, no [relative] standard for it exists at all.

Word Forms

• primals
• primaling
• primalling
• primaled
• primalled

Synonyms for primal

Depending on context, synonyms include aboriginal, primaeval, primeval, primordial, primary, cardinal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include primeval, primaeval, primordial, aboriginal, fundamental, cardinal.

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