Word Meanings - PRIMARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Earliest formed; fundamental. (more info) 1. First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original. The church of Christ, in its primary institution. Bp. Pearson. These I call original, or primary, qualities of

Additional info about word: PRIMARY

Earliest formed; fundamental. (more info) 1. First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original. The church of Christ, in its primary institution. Bp. Pearson. These I call original, or primary, qualities of body. Locke. 2. First in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools. 3. First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRIMARY)

• Elementary
• Physical
• material
• natural
• elementary
• primary
• rudimental
• simple
• inchoate
• compo
• constituent
• ultimate
• First
• Leading
• pristine
• original
• foremost
• primitive
• principal
• primeval
• highest
• chief
• earliest
• Fundamental
• Primary
• important
• indispensable
• essential
• Original
• initiatory
• primordial
• peculiar
• ancient
• former
• first
• Principal
• Highest
• main
• leading
• pre-eminent
• prominent

Related words: (words related to PRIMARY)

• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• FOREMOST
  First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army. THat struck the foremost man of all this world. Shak. (more info) superl. of forma first, which is a superl. fr. fore fore; cf. Goth. frumist,
• PRIMORDIALLY
  At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.
• INDISPENSABLENESS
  The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• PRIMITIVENESS
  The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• PRIMEVALLY
  In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin.
• INCHOATE
  Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete. -- In"cho*ate*ly, adv. Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate. Raleigh.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• COMPONENT
  Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent. The component parts of natural bodies. Sir I. Newton.
• COMPOSURE
  1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOSSIBLE
  Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• ANTEPENULTIMATE
  Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two. -- n.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• STERNFOREMOST
  With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
• POT LEAD
  Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.