Primeval
adjective
Belonging to the very distant past.
The discovery of the dinosaur remains gives us a glimpse into the primeval world.
Often appears as...
- primeval forest
- primeval man
adjective
Belonging to the very distant past.
The discovery of the dinosaur remains gives us a glimpse into the primeval world.
Often appears as...
- primeval forest
- primeval man
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Connection
Used to describe things from a time before recorded history, often prehistoric.
The archaeologist was fascinated by the primeval tools found in the cave.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Modern
Indicates something ancient, emphasizing a lack of contemporary or modern characteristics.
People once believed that dragons roamed the primeval landscapes.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural World
Often used when talking about nature, to suggest a wild, untouched state.
The primeval forest was dense and unexplored, teeming with undiscovered species.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Connection
Used to describe things from a time before recorded history, often prehistoric.
The archaeologist was fascinated by the primeval tools found in the cave.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Modern
Indicates something ancient, emphasizing a lack of contemporary or modern characteristics.
People once believed that dragons roamed the primeval landscapes.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural World
Often used when talking about nature, to suggest a wild, untouched state.
The primeval forest was dense and unexplored, teeming with undiscovered species.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Connection
Used to describe things from a time before recorded history, often prehistoric.
The archaeologist was fascinated by the primeval tools found in the cave.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Modern
Indicates something ancient, emphasizing a lack of contemporary or modern characteristics.
People once believed that dragons roamed the primeval landscapes.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural World
Often used when talking about nature, to suggest a wild, untouched state.
The primeval forest was dense and unexplored, teeming with undiscovered species.
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Susan Blackmore: Memes...
And he wanted to get away from everybody thinking all the time about genes, and so he said, "Is there another replicator out there on the planet?" Ah, yes, there is. Look around you -- here will do, in this room. All around us, still clumsily drifting about in its primeval soup of culture, is another replicator.
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Top 5 Killer Crocodile...
tear this thing to pieces so it's pretty primeval hippos and crocodiles normally coexist peacefully but crocs will take every opportunity to prey on a weak animal or scavenge a dead one we've seen one or two of these hippos doing these big yawning displays which is really a threat to the crocodiles
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Jonathan Foley: The...
If we go a little bit further south in our little tour of the world, we can go to the Bolivian edge of the Amazon, here also in 1975, and if you look really carefully, there's a thin white line through that kind of seam, and there's a lone farmer out there in the middle of the primeval jungle.
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How fire shapes...
the other narrative is amor let's call it primeval fire and it speaks of fire is a companion on our journey and something of our shared stewardship with the world around us I I particularly like the kid with the fire stick no
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Greatest Fights In The...
there seems to be a whole gang that are trying to force the crops off while they tear this thing into pieces so it's pretty primeval hippos and crocodiles normally coexist peacefully
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Richard Preston:...
Even so, about four percent of the primeval Redwood rainforest remains intact, wild and now protected -- entirely protected -- in a chain of small parks strung out like pearls
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Hippo Fights Crocodiles...
There seems to be a whole gang trying to force the crocs off while they tear this thing to pieces. It's pretty primeval. Hippos and crocodiles normally coexist peacefully,
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Amory Lovins: A 40-year...
Let's see how. Four-fifths of the world's energy still comes from burning each year four cubic miles of the rotted remains of primeval swamp goo. Those fossil fuels
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A 40-year plan for...
secure healthy and durable let's see how four-fifths of the world's energy still comes from burning each year four cubic miles of the rotted remains of primeval
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Gator Romance PIPE Untamed...
spray and the cypress swamps of southern Florida the warm weather triggers a primeval
Video examples
Susan Blackmore: Memes...
And he wanted to get away from everybody thinking all the time about genes, and so he said, "Is there another replicator out there on the planet?" Ah, yes, there is. Look around you -- here will do, in this room. All around us, still clumsily drifting about in its primeval soup of culture, is another replicator.
Video examples
Top 5 Killer Crocodile...
tear this thing to pieces so it's pretty primeval hippos and crocodiles normally coexist peacefully but crocs will take every opportunity to prey on a weak animal or scavenge a dead one we've seen one or two of these hippos doing these big yawning displays which is really a threat to the crocodiles
Video examples
Jonathan Foley: The...
If we go a little bit further south in our little tour of the world, we can go to the Bolivian edge of the Amazon, here also in 1975, and if you look really carefully, there's a thin white line through that kind of seam, and there's a lone farmer out there in the middle of the primeval jungle.
Video examples
How fire shapes...
the other narrative is amor let's call it primeval fire and it speaks of fire is a companion on our journey and something of our shared stewardship with the world around us I I particularly like the kid with the fire stick no
Video examples
Greatest Fights In The...
there seems to be a whole gang that are trying to force the crops off while they tear this thing into pieces so it's pretty primeval hippos and crocodiles normally coexist peacefully
Video examples
Richard Preston:...
Even so, about four percent of the primeval Redwood rainforest remains intact, wild and now protected -- entirely protected -- in a chain of small parks strung out like pearls
Video examples
Hippo Fights Crocodiles...
There seems to be a whole gang trying to force the crocs off while they tear this thing to pieces. It's pretty primeval. Hippos and crocodiles normally coexist peacefully,
Video examples
Amory Lovins: A 40-year...
Let's see how. Four-fifths of the world's energy still comes from burning each year four cubic miles of the rotted remains of primeval swamp goo. Those fossil fuels
Video examples
A 40-year plan for...
secure healthy and durable let's see how four-fifths of the world's energy still comes from burning each year four cubic miles of the rotted remains of primeval
Video examples
Gator Romance PIPE Untamed...
spray and the cypress swamps of southern Florida the warm weather triggers a primeval
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Sabine Baring-Gould
English Clergyman
Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.
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Stephen Jay Gould
American Scientist
Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.
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Richard Flanagan
Australian Novelist
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.
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Richard Preston
American Writer
Seeing outward is equivalent to looking backward in time because the telescope's mirror is capturing primeval light... galaxies that existed before our time.
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Rupert Murdoch
American Publisher
Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.
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Henry Beston
American Writer
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
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Adam Hamilton
American Clergyman
The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
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Dylan Moran
Irish Comedian
I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
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Barbara W. Tuchman
American Historian
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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Sabine Baring-Gould
English Clergyman
Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.
Quote examples
Stephen Jay Gould
American Scientist
Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.
Quote examples
Richard Flanagan
Australian Novelist
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.
Quote examples
Richard Preston
American Writer
Seeing outward is equivalent to looking backward in time because the telescope's mirror is capturing primeval light... galaxies that existed before our time.
Quote examples
Rupert Murdoch
American Publisher
Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.
Quote examples
Henry Beston
American Writer
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
Quote examples
Adam Hamilton
American Clergyman
The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
Quote examples
Dylan Moran
Irish Comedian
I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
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Barbara W. Tuchman
American Historian
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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