Primeval

Quick meaning: Primeval is an adjective meaning Belonging to the first ages.

Meaning

Belonging to the first ages.

More Meanings

1. Primary; original.
2. Primitive.

Example Sentences

a primeval galaxy

But if life has a happiness over which the primeval curse has passed and harmed not, it is the early and long enduring affection of blood and habit.

If their views were entrancing their sanitation was primeval; if they possessed stables they were also next to the gas-works; if their gardens were delightful there were odours suspicious of mice in the bedrooms.

And Tarzan had to be contented with that arrangement, though he would have liked it well enough to have set off the next morning—he was as impatient as a child. Really Tarzan of the Apes was but a child, or a primeval man, which is the same thing in a way.

Word Forms

• primaeval

Synonyms for primeval

Depending on context, synonyms include primordial, primal, primaeval, early, aboriginal.

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