primary (n.)
- abecedarian
- aboriginal
- anterior
- arch
- banner
- basic
- beginning
- bottom
- budding
- by-election
- capital
- cardinal
- caucus
- central
- champion
- chief
- constituent
- dominant
- election
- essential
- first
- fore
- forehand
- formative
- forward
- front
- frontal
- fundamental
- germinal
- great
- gut
- halftone
- head
- homespun
- inaugural
- inchoative
- infant
- initial
- initiative
- leading
- maiden
- main
- master
- material
- mere
- monochrome
- natal
- original
- pioneer
- plain
- premier
- prime
- primitive
- principal
- pure
- radical
- ranking
- referendum
- ruling
- runoff
- secondary
- simple
- single
- sovereign
- spare
- spectrum
- star
- substantive
- tertiary
- ultimate
- uniform
- ur
primary (adj.)
- abecedarian
- aboriginal
- antenatal
- anterior
- arch
- austere
- autochthonous
- banner
- bare
- basal
- basic
- basilar
- beginning
- bottom
- budding
- capital
- cardinal
- central
- champion
- chaste
- chief
- constituent
- constitutive
- controlling
- creative
- crowning
- crucial
- direct
- dominant
- earliest
- elemental
- elementary
- embryonic
- essential
- fetal
- first
- firsthand
- focal
- fore
- forehand
- foremost
- formative
- forward
- front
- frontal
- fundamental
- generative
- genetic
- germinal
- great
- head
- homely
- homespun
- homogeneous
- immediate
- inaugural
- inceptive
- inchoate
- inchoative
- incipient
- indivisible
- infantile
- initial
- initiative
- initiatory
- introductory
- inventive
- irreducible
- leading
- magisterial
- maiden
- main
- master
- material
- mere
- monochrome
- monolithic
- nascent
- natal
- original
- overriding
- paramount
- parturient
- plain
- postnatal
- predominant
- preeminent
- pregnant
- premier
- prenatal
- preponderant
- prevailing
- primal
- prime
- primeval
- primitive
- primordial
- principal
- pristine
- procreative
- prototypal
- pure
- radical
- ranking
- rudimentary
- ruling
- secondary
- seminal
- severe
- simple
- single
- sovereign
- spare
- star
- stark
- stellar
- substantial
- substantive
- supreme
- tertiary
- topmost
- ultimate
- unadorned
- unadulterated
- uncluttered
- underived
- underlying
- undifferentiated
- unexampled
- uniform
- unmixed
- unprecedented
- uppermost
- ur