<adj.all> a cardinal rule the central cause of the problem an example that was fundamental to the argument computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure
having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
<adj.all> aboriginal forests primal eras before the appearance of life on earth the forest primeval primordial matter primordial forms of life
Primal \Pri"mal\, a. [LL. primalis, fr. L. primus the first. See {Prime}, a.] First; primary; original; chief.
It hath the primal eldest curse upon it. --Shak.
The primal duties shine aloft like stars. --Wordsworth.
It was typical of the "primal urge of exacting revenge" that dominates the courts today, Mr. Bank contended.
Weiner, an advocate of the controversial "primal scream" therapy, treated Ms. Schreuder, court papers said.
Their efforts were briefly interrupted, however, when a group of Goddess worshipers, holding a ritual for Mother Earth nearby, let go with their primal screams.
Their wails reach a feverish pitch and peak in a primal scream.
Their appeal, likewise, is to the primal instincts, not the imagination.
Ten years later he published the first of two books on American sexual behavior that shook the American public to its primal roots and inventoried everything from infidelity to masturbation.
His blood lust is so well done he somehow seems to revert to a primal, evil animal state.
The viewer is intended to begin at the Eastern end, where man is seen crawling out from the primal slime.