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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Primeval \Pri*me"val\, adjective [L. primaevus; primus first + aevum age. See {Prime}, adjective, and {Age}.] Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man. ''This is the forest primeval.'' --Longfellow.
From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light. --Keats.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
primeval
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}, {primaeval}, {primordial}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
90 Moby Thesaurus words for "primeval": 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
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