Usually means: Fundamental, essential nature or instincts.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word primal:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. primal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. primal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. primal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. primal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. primal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Primal, primal: Wordnik
  7. primal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. primal: Wiktionary
  9. primal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. primal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. primal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Primal, primal: Dictionary.com
  13. primal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. primal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Primal (TV series), Primal (comics), Primal (film), Primal (video game), Primal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Primal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. primal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. primal: Rhymezone
  19. primal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. primal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. primal: Free Dictionary
  22. primal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. primal: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. primal: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. primal: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. primal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. primal: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. primal: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. primal: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Being the first in time or in history.
▸ adjective:  Of greatest importance; primary.
▸ adjective:  (meat trade) Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts.
▸ noun:  A primal cut (of meat).
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To take part in primal therapy.

Similar:
primaeval, primordial, primeval, fundamental, aboriginal, early, cardinal, important, central, key, more...

Opposite:
modern, advanced, sophisticated, developed, evolved

Types:
fire, water, earth, air, void, more...

Phrases:
primal scene, primal scream, primal horde, primal therapy, primal sketch, more...

Adjectives:
more, restricted, own, dual, new, little, moral, sympathetic, original, cubic, symmetric


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Similar:
primaeval, primordial, primeval, fundamental, aboriginal, early, cardinal, important, central, key, more...

Opposite:
modern, advanced, sophisticated, developed, evolved

Types:
fire, water, earth, air, void, more...

Phrases:
primal scene, primal scream, primal horde, primal therapy, primal sketch, primal scenes, primal chaos, primal screams, primal scream therapy, primal therapist, Primal cut, Far Cry Primal, Primal Rage, more...

Adjectives:
more, restricted, own, dual, new, little, moral, sympathetic, original, cubic, symmetric



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