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Princeton's WordNet

1. aboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval, primordial(adj)

   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"

Wiktionary

1. primordial(Adjective)

   first, earliest or original

2. primordial(Adjective)

   characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium

3. primordial(Adjective)

   primeval

Origin: From the primordialis. Confer primordium and -al.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

1. Primordial(adj.)

   Original; existing from the beginning.

   Salts may be either transmuted or otherwise produced, and so may not be primordial and immutable beings. Boyle.

2. Primordial(n.s.)

   Origin; first principle.

   The primordials of the world are not mechanical, but spermatical and vital. Henry More, Divine Dialogues.

Origin: from the adj.

ChatGPT

1. primordial

   Primordial refers to something that existed at or from the very beginning of time, or something in its original or earliest state. It often describes conditions, forms, or substances that are considered fundamental or original, existing before anything else. It can also relate to an instinct or a principle that has the origins in the earliest stages of development or evolution.

Webster Dictionary

1. Primordial(adj)

   first in order; primary; original; of earliest origin; as, primordial condition

2. Primordial(adj)

   of or pertaining to the lowest beds of the Silurian age, corresponding to the Acadian and Potsdam periods in American geology. It is called also Cambrian, and by many geologists is separated from the Silurian

3. Primordial(adj)

   originally or earliest formed in the growth of an individual or organ; as, a primordial leaf; a primordial cell

4. Primordial(noun)

   a first principle or element

Origin: [L. primordialis, from primordium the first beginning; primus first + ordiri to begin a web, to begin: cf. F. primordial.]

Wikidata

1. Primordial

   Primordial is an extreme metal band from Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland. It was formed in 1987 by Pól MacAmhlaigh and Ciarán MacUiliam. Their sound melds black metal with Irish folk music.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

1. Primordial

   prī-mor′di-al, adj. first in order: original: existing from the beginning: (anat.) in a rudimentary state: (bot.) first formed, as leaves or fruit.—n. first principle or element.—ns. Primor′dialism; Primor′dium. [L. primus, first, ordo, order.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of primordial in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of primordial in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of primordial in a Sentence

1. Robin Green:

   I am...blood. That primordial ooze. Not out there, listeners, in here. Inside this skin we wear, it only lets us think we're something else-- nice clean brains, little talking computers running around in the pursuit of happiness. We pierce this skin and what do we see Warm ooze, protoplasm churning and jesting, defecating, pulsating, life, death.

2. Robert Pattinson:

   What I look for is when a piece has its own language, it doesn't necessarily feel like it just exists for its own sake and has a presence that hums with a bit of life. It has the ability to communicate with you on a kind of primordial level.

3. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert:

   I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

4. Andr Bieler:

   The fact that it’s in the whole body led us to the idea that it was primordial so the O2 must have been present at the formation of the comet.

5. Tom DeLay:

   Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.