Synonyms:
primary
Meaning: of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary; "primary goals"; "a primary effect"; "primary sources"; "a primary interest"
Synonyms:
primary
Meaning: not derived from or reducible to something else; basic; "a primary instinct"
Synonyms:
chief(a), main(a), primary(a), principal(a), master(a)
Meaning: most important element; "the chief aim of living"; "the main doors were of solid glass"; "the principal rivers of America"; "the principal example"; "policemen were primary targets"; "the master bedroom"; "a master switch"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
primary, primary_election
Meaning: a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
Synonyms:
primary, primary_feather, primary_quill
Meaning: one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
Usage examples
Cohesion of solid parts and Impulse, the primary ideas peculiar to Body.
Behold how I have used the senses, the primary conceptions which Thous gavest me.
It destroys my primary right of security, by constantly creating and stimulating social disorder.
For the soul is the primary principle of our nourishment, sensation, and local movement; and likewise of our understanding.
Each species, in this way, possesses a primary architectural model which is followed as a whole, in spite of altered conditions.
Another supplies my food, whose care it is; another my raiment; another hath given me perceptions of sense and primary conceptions.
It is exactly like the primary battery in the fundamental circumstance that its ability for generating electric current depends upon chemical action.
This is the primary defect of popular government, a defect inherent in its traditions, and all its other defects can, I believe, be traced to this one.
Our moon differs from other satellites in being exceptionally large compared with the size of its primary; it is as big as some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
The difficulty of satisfying these various desires at the same time is the primary cause of the despotism of the will, and the appropriation which results from it.