'Primeval' definitions:
Definition of 'primeval'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: aboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval, primordial]
Definition of 'Primeval'
From: GCIDE
- Primeval \Pri*me"val\, a. [L. primaevus; primus first + aevum age. See Prime, a., and Age.] Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man. "This is the forest primeval." --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light. --Keats. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'primeval'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- ancestral,
- ancient,
- antenatal,
- antepatriarchal,
- atavistic,
- autochthonous,
- basal,
- basic,
- beginning,
- budding,
- central,
- creative,
- crucial,
- early,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- erstwhile,
- fetal,
- fore,
- formative,
- former,
- foundational,
- fundamental,
- generative,
- genetic,
- germinal,
- gestatory,
- humanoid,
- immemorial,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in ovo,
- in the bud,
- inaugural,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incunabular,
- infant,
- infantile,
- initial,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- introductory,
- inventive,
- late,
- nascent,
- natal,
- old,
- olden,
- once,
- onetime,
- original,
- parturient,
- past,
- patriarchal,
- postnatal,
- preadamite,
- preglacial,
- pregnant,
- prehistoric,
- prehuman,
- prenatal,
- previous,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- primoprimitive,
- primordial,
- prior,
- pristine,
- procreative,
- protogenic,
- protohistoric,
- protohuman,
- quondam,
- radical,
- recent,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- seminal,
- sometime,
- then,
- ur