Primeval

Definition: Primeval

Primeval

Adjective

1. Having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life".

Date "primeval" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Primeval \Pri*me"val\, adjective. [Latin expression primaevus; primus first aevum age. See Prime, adjective, and Age.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Primeval

Synonyms: aboriginal (adj), primaeval (adj), primal (adj), primordial (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Beginning	Adjective: beginning; Verb: initial, initiatory, initiative; inceptive, introductory, incipient; proemial, inaugural; inchoate, inchoative; embryonic, rudimental; primogenial; primeval, primitive, primordial; (old); aboriginal; natal, nascent.
Oldness	Prime; primitive, primeval, primigenous; paleolontological, paleontologic, paleoanthropological, paleoanthropic, paleolithic; primordial, primordinate; aboriginal; (beginning); diluvian, antediluvian; protohistoric; prehistoric; antebellum, colonial, precolumbian; patriarchal, preadamite; paleocrystic; fossil, paleozoolical, paleozoic, preglacial, antemundane; archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite, ancestral, black-letter.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Primeval

English words defined with "primeval": Amen, Amon ♦ first water ♦ Gastraea, Golden Age ♦ Nammu ♦ Ogygian ♦ Primevally, Primevous, Primitive streak ♦ Ymir. (references)

Specialty definitions using "primeval": Sesha. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Gaston, you are positively primeval. (Beauty and the Beast; writing credit: Roger Allers; Kelly Asbury) We're all basically primeval slime with ideas above its station. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)
Lyrics	Deeper than any forest primeval (Longer; performing artist: Dan Fogelberg)
Movie/TV Titles	The Primeval Test (1913) Primeval (2003)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	City Primeval (reference) High Redshift and Primeval Galaxies (reference) Infant Potty Training : A Gentle and Primeval Method Adapted to Modern Living (reference) Keith Haring: Future Primeval (reference) Predation in Vertebrate Communities: The Bialowieza Primeval Forest As a Case Study (Ecological Studies, Vol 135) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	National Geographic - Forest Primeval (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Primeval (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Suttapitaka	Hatreds never cease by hatred; they cease by non-hatred; this is the primeval law.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	It straggled onward into the mystery of the primeval forest.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Primeval" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.94% of the time. "Primeval" is used about 97 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	97.94%	95	33,629
Noun (singular)	2.06%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	97	N/A

Expressions using "primeval": primeval area ♦ primeval fear ♦ primeval forest ♦ primeval man ♦ primeval matter ♦ primeval mud ♦ primeval times ♦ primeval world. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "primeval": primeval-soup.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "primeval"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i qëmotshëm (old time, primaeval, primordial, vintage), i lashtë (age-old, ancient, antique, early, grey, grey headed, Hoar, hoary, old, old world, primaeval, primordial), i hershëm (early, forehanded, forward, old time, original, precocious, primaeval, young), i dikurshëm (ancient, of yore, old time, primaeval, quondam, whilom). (various references)

Arabic		‏في أول الزمان (primaeval), ‏قدمي (pedal, pedicure, primaeval), ‏أولي (elementary, first, fundamental, incipient, overriding, premonitory, primaeval, primal, primary, prime, rudimentary, ultimate, virgin), ‏بدائي (aboriginal, embryonic, primaeval, primal, primitive, primordial, pristine, rudimentary). (various references)

Chinese		草昧. (various references)

Czech		prvotní (original, prime, primitive, raw), pravìký (prehistoric). (various references)

Danish		urskov (primeval forest, virgin forest), område i naturtilstand (primeval area, virgin area). (various references)

Dutch		oerwoud (jungle, primeval forest). (various references)

Esperanto		praarbaro (primeval forest). (various references)

Faeroese		frumskógur (primeval forest). (various references)

Farsi		پیشین (Antecedent, Fore, Former, Olden, Previous, Primitive, Prior, Pristine), اولیه (Early, Incipient, Preliminary, Primal, Prime, Rudiment, Rudimentary), بسیارکهن (Primordial), باستانی (Ancient, Antiquarian, Antique, Gray, Old, Primer, Relic). (various references)

Finnish		iki (eternal, ever-, over). (various references)

French		primitif (primaeval, primal, primitive, pristine). (various references)

Frisian		oerwâld (primeval forest). (various references)

German		urzeitlich. (various references)

Greek		γομών, πρωτόγονοσ (aboriginal, primitive, pristine), πανάρχαιοσ (hoary, world old), ετοιμάζων. (various references)

Hebrew		ק�"מו� י (ancient, eastern), �"יולי (hylic, primitive), בראשיתי, ראשיתי (primitive, primordial). (various references)

Hungarian		eredeti (aboriginal, genuine, initial, native, novel, original, primaeval, primal, primary, prime, primordial, pristine, true, unsophisticated). (various references)

Italian		primordiale (primaeval, primordial), primitivo (original, primaeval, primal, primitive, rude, savage, wild). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		原�"� (primitive, spontaneous generation), 原始 (origin). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�'�"せい (current state, exactness, impartiality, life, present or actual strength, presentworld, primitive, rigidness, sound of the strings, spontaneous generation, strictness, the present age), �'�"し (apparition, atom, capital, origin, original poem, phantom limb, principal, reduction of capital, silkworm egg sheet, stencil, strict order, thread for weaving, vision, visual hallucination, your order). (various references)

Korean		원시 (Primitive). (various references)

Manx		bun-eashagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		imevalpray

Portuguese		primitivo (barbaric, early, first, forehand, former, larrikin, low-lived, origin, primaeval, primal, primary, prime, primitive, primordial, pristine, savage, whilom, wilding). (various references)

Romanian		primitiv (crude, dark, primal, primary, primitive, primitively, rude), primar (bailiff, elementary, initial, mayor, once removed, primal, primary, pristine, provost), paleozioc. (various references)

Russian		первобытный (barbaric, primaeval, primal, primitive, primordial, pristine). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prastar (hoary), drevni (immemorial, pristine). (various references)

Spanish		prístino (primaeval, pristine). (various references)

Sranan		busi (forest, primeval forest, woods). (various references)

Swedish		ursprunglig (aboriginal, coming, natural, original, primary, primitive, primordial, pristine, simple). (various references)

Turkish		ilkel (crude, elementary, embryonic, primal, primitive, primordial, proto-, rude, rudimental, rudimentary), ilk çağa ait (primitive). (various references)

Ukrainian		первісний (aboriginal, antecedent, archetypal, barbaric, initial, original, originary, primaeval, primal, prime, primitive). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "primeval": primevally. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Primeval" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pimeval, premeal, primeral, Primeva, primevally, primeveal, primevel, Primevil, roneval, rpimeval. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "primeval" (pronounced prīmē"vul)
4	-ē" v u l	evil, medieval, retrieval, upheaval, weevil.
3	-v u l	anvil, approval, archival, arrival, arval, bedevil, bevel, carnival, civil, daredevil, devil, disapproval, dishevel, drivel, festival, gavel, gravel, grovel, hovel, interval, larval, level, marvel, multilevel, naval, navel, novel, oval, Ravel, removal, revel, revival, rival, servile, shovel, shrivel, survival, swivel, travel, uncivil, unravel.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-m-p-r-v"
	-1 letter: impaler, impearl, lempira, palmier, prevail, vampire.
	-2 letters: ampler, impale, limper, mailer, marvel, palier, palmer, prelim, primal, remail, revamp, rimple, vamper.
	-3 letters: aimer, aiver, alive, ample, ariel, email, ervil, impel, lamer, laver, limpa, liver, livre, maile, maple, mavie, miler, milpa, paler, parle, parve, paver, pearl, peril, pilar, pilea, plier, prima, prime, ramie, ravel, realm.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-m-p-r-v"
	+1 letter: verapamil.
	+2 letters: improvable, primevally, verapamils.
	+3 letters: premedieval.
	+4 letters: imperatively.
	+5 letters: comparatively, imperceivable, overamplified.
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