Primordial

Word PRIMORDIAL
Character 10
Hyphenation pri mor di al
Pronunciations /pɹaɪˈmɔː.di.əl/

Definitions and meanings of "Primordial"

What do we mean by primordial?

Being or happening first in sequence of time; original. adjective

Primary or fundamental. adjective

Belonging to or characteristic of the earliest stage of development of an organism or a part. adjective

A basic principle. noun

First in order; earliest; original; primitive; existing from the beginning.

In anatomy, primitive; formative; in a rudimentary or embryonic state: opposed to definitive, or final, completed, or perfected: as, the primordial skull of man is partly membranous, partly cartilaginous.

In botany, first formed: applied to the first true leaves formed by a young plant, also to the first fruit produced on a raceme or spike.

In geology, containing the earliest traces of life.

Synonyms Prime, etc. See primary.

A first principle or element. noun

First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin. adjective

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. adjective

Originally or earliest formed in the growth of an individual or organ adjective

The interior lining of a young vegetable cell. adjective

A first principle or element. noun

First, earliest or original adjective

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

Primeval adjective

A first principle or element. noun

Having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state adjective

A first principle or element.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Primordial

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The word "primordial" in example sentences

He goes back to the first link, or to what he calls primordial generation. ❋ R. W. Wright (N/A)

The issue was exponential growth in primordial populations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Paul Davies says: "The key to existence will be found not in primordial sludge, but in the nanotechnology of the living cell." ❋ Unknown (2006)

Democritus called his primordial element an atom; Anaxagoras, too, conceived a primordial element, but he called it merely a seed or thing; he failed to christen it distinctively. ❋ Unknown (1904)

It’s not like these factors manifest themselves in primordial physical traits. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is what Virginia Woolf called the primordial ooze – that fertile clay that we make things out of as writers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But by studying small galaxies near the outer fringes of the Milky Way galaxy, the pair concluded that galaxies grew by swallowing smaller galaxies, so-called primordial fragments. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The paper does nothing to “oust” the so called primordial soup, it does add another potential energy source to the prebiotic system but its just another version of the hydrothermal energy systems that have been around for years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Racism and economic instability count high on the list of issues, but beneath virtually all of the causes there is a fundamental problem with external authority, in most cases (I would be willing to bet), resulting from primordial, that is, "childhood", abuse and unsuccessful attempts to declare and achieve personal freedom from an abusive parent or other adult. ❋ Unknown (2009)

First there was the sixteenth-century kabbalist Isaac Luria's notion of "tzimtzum," that is, the primordial kenotic space of Divine contraction out of which the pairs of opposites constituting the universe were said to arise. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"That is commonly called primordial matter which is in the category of substance as a potentiality cognized apart from all species and form, and even from privation; yet susceptive of forms and privations" (De spiritual. creat., ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The crowd, on command, burst into hysterical howls of laughter, aching belly howls that went on and on and on, an event which frightened me far more than my 6 billion co-inhabitants, as a demonstration of how easily mass emotion can be created, just by urging one to recall primordial fears. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These black holes are called primordial because they were created a fraction of a second after the beginning of the universe. ❋ Staq Mavlen (2008)

On the basis level, the everlasting continuum is our mind – specifically its subtlest level known as primordial clear light – which provides continuity throughout all our lifetimes. ❋ Unknown (1997)

As clear light mind, individual in each being, has neither beginning nor end, it is called primordial, arising simultaneously with each moment of experience of life, death, samsara, nirvana or enlightenment. ❋ Unknown (1997)

In such a case, it is called primordial, or first matter, and is conceived as being a subject potential to information by any and all formal causes. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

We are thus carried back to a period so remote, that the appearance of the so-called primordial fauna (of Barrande) may by some be considered as a comparatively modern event. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The first and oldest of the four or five chief divisions of the organic history of the earth is called the primordial, archaic, or archeozoic period. ❋ Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1876)

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