English-Thai Dictionary

primeval

ADJ ที่ มาจาก ยุค แรกๆ  ancient primitive ti-ma-jak-yuk-reak-reak

 

primeval

ADJ ที่ เกิดขึ้น โดย สัญชาติญา ณ  ti-koed-kuan-doi-san-chad-ti-yan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PRIMEVAL

a.[L. primus, first, and oevum, age, primoevus.] Original; primitive; as the primeval innocence of man; primeval day.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PRIMEVAL

Pri *me "val, a. Etym: [L. primaevus; primus first + aevum age. See Prime, a., and Age. ]

 

Defn: 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.

 

PRIMEVALLY

PRIMEVALLY Pri *me "val *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

primeval

pri me val |prīˈmēvəl praɪˈmivəl |(Brit. also primaeval ) ▶adjective of or resembling the earliest ages in the history of the world: mile after mile of primeval forest. • (of feelings or actions ) based on primitive instinct; raw and elementary: a primeval desire. DERIVATIVES pri me val ly adverb ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin primaevus (from primus ‘first ’ + aevum ‘age ’) + -al .

 

Oxford Dictionary

primeval

primeval |prʌɪˈmiːv (ə )l |(also primaeval ) ▶adjective of the earliest time in history: mile after mile of primeval forest. • (of emotion or behaviour ) strongly instinctive and unreasoning: a primeval desire. DERIVATIVES primevally adverb ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin primaevus (from primus ‘first ’ + aevum ‘age ’) + -al .

 

primeval soup

pri |meval soup ▶noun another term for primordial soup.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

primeval

primeval adjective 1 primeval forest: ancient, earliest, first, prehistoric, antediluvian, primordial; pristine, original, virgin. 2 primeval fears: instinctive, primitive, basic, primal, primordial, intuitive, inborn, innate, inherent.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

primeval

primeval adjective 1 one of Europe's last areas of primeval forest: ancient, earliest, first, prehistoric, antediluvian, antique, primordial, primitive, primal; pristine, original, untouched by humans; aboriginal, indigenous; rare autochthonous, autochthonic, primigenial. ANTONYMS modern. 2 all sorts of primeval fears: instinctive, primitive, basic, primal, primordial, intuitive, intuitional, involuntary, inborn, innate, inherent, inbred, natural, congenital, hereditary, inherited, in the blood, ingrained.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

primeval

pri me val /praɪmíːv (ə )l /形容詞 ｟かたく ｠〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗原始 (時代 )の, 太古の .