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primordial
[ prahy-mawr-dee-uhl ]
adjective
- constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary:
primordial forms of life.
- Embryology. first formed.
- pertaining to or existing at or from the very beginning:
primordial matter.
primordial
/ praɪˈmɔːdɪəl /
adjective
- existing at or from the beginning; earliest; primeval
- constituting an origin; fundamental
- biology of or relating to an early stage of development
primordial germ cells
noun
- an elementary or basic principle
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Derived Forms
- priˈmordially, adverb
- priˌmordiˈality, noun
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Other Words From
- pri·mor·di·al·i·ty [prahy-mawr-dee-, al, -i-tee], noun
- pri·mordi·al·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of primordial1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of primordial1
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Example Sentences
Sliding around beneath the surface of Los Angeles is something dark, primordial, and without form.
What humans choose to do with this shapeless primordial stuff leaking through the cracks can often be almost comical.
He is rather drawn to figures in pain, to the primordial, and to gloom.
One predicted side effect of inflation is primordial gravitational waves: twisty ripples in the structure of the Universe.
By now a calm had settled over him, a kind of primordial survival instinct, he believes.
His point now became exactly what it used to be in the primordial dog—a pause of preparation before the spring.
Nu was the spirit of the primordial deep, and Nut of the waters above the heavens, the mother of moon and sun and the stars.
First of all Thales thought that water was the primordial substance of all things.
He lifted a pseudopod from primordial ooze, and the pseudopod was him.
Brilliant as are, in certain animal species, the destinies of the male, the female is primordial.
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