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primally

primally adverb: in a primal manner.

Adverb

primally (comparative more primally, superlative most primally)

  1. In a primal manner.
    • As we stepped out into the awesome half-daylight of this monstrous cylinder-bottom—fifty million years old, and without doubt the most primally ancient structure ever to meet our eyes—we saw that the ramp-traversed sides stretched dizzily up to a height of fully sixty feet.1931, H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness Chapter 9
    • The discrepancy is striking and cannot be explained by size, as the smallest are the most massive, and if all were primally of like constitution, should be the least compressed.1909, Percival Lowell, The Evolution of Worlds

Forms of primally

comparativemore primally
superlativemost primally

Origin of primally

From primal + -ly.

Questions about primally

What does primally mean?
Primally means in a primal manner.
What part of speech is primally?
Primally is an adverb.

Words near primally in the dictionary

  1. primaling
  2. primalities
  3. primality
  4. primalled
  5. primalling
  6. primally
  7. primals
  8. primaperone
  9. primaquine
  10. primarch
  11. primaried

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