primal (adj.)
- abecedarian
- aboriginal
- antenatal
- arch
- atavistic
- austere
- autochthonous
- banner
- bare
- basal
- basic
- basilar
- beginning
- bodily
- born
- budding
- capital
- cardinal
- central
- champion
- chaste
- chief
- coeval
- congenital
- connate
- connatural
- constituent
- constitutional
- constitutive
- creative
- crowning
- crucial
- dominant
- elemental
- elementary
- embryonic
- essential
- fetal
- first
- focal
- foremost
- formative
- fundamental
- generative
- genetic
- germinal
- great
- hereditary
- homely
- homespun
- homogeneous
- inaugural
- inborn
- inbred
- incarnate
- inceptive
- inchoate
- inchoative
- incipient
- indigenous
- indivisible
- infantile
- inherited
- initial
- initiative
- initiatory
- innate
- instinctive
- introductory
- inventive
- irreducible
- leading
- magisterial
- main
- master
- material
- mere
- monolithic
- nascent
- natal
- native
- natural
- organic
- original
- paramount
- parturient
- physical
- plain
- postnatal
- predominant
- preeminent
- pregnant
- prenatal
- preponderant
- prevailing
- primary
- prime
- primeval
- primitive
- primordial
- principal
- pristine
- procreative
- pure
- radical
- ranking
- rudimentary
- ruling
- seminal
- severe
- simple
- single
- sovereign
- spare
- star
- stark
- stellar
- substantial
- substantive
- temperamental
- unadorned
- uncluttered
- underlying
- undifferentiated
- uniform
- ur
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars;
The charities that soothe and heal and bless
Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers.
O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't,
A brother's murder.
