What's the adjective for primeness? Here's the word you're looking for.
Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the
verbs primary and prime which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.
“He has just purchased an apartment in one of the city's prime locations.”
“A prime cause of deforestation was the burning of charcoal to melt ore into iron.”
“This is surely a prime example of the kind of research we should be conducting.”
primary
The first in a group or series.
Main; principal; placed ahead of others.
(geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
(chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
(medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
(medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
“Fascination with fire could be described as a primal urge, an urge that we have become distanced from as our relationship with fire has become progressively more controlled.”
“Researchers believe that nuts and seeds were a primal component of the human diet long before grains.”
“Eckels is hurtled back to a primeval jungle to bag the biggest of game, the Tyrannosaurus rex, with the added charge that he must not disturb any other part of the natural world, lest he upset the delicate time-space continuum.”
“Angela Carter, too, relished the primeval terrors of the fairy tale world, rekindling it in her own tales of bloody chambers and rampant wolves.”
“The whole scene is so primeval that we would stand gaping all afternoon if the westering arc of the sun didn't jog us on our way.”
“Black civilization passes then through brutality and superstition, through the primogenial rites of deadly exorcism carried out by the Congo witch doctor.”
