primal

IPA: prˈaɪmʌɫ

Being the first in time or in history.
Of greatest importance; primary.
(meat trade) Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts.

Examples of "primal" in Sentences

Humans have twin primal urges: to fear change for themselves yet want it for others.
But here we may be questioned about these numbers which we describe as the primal and authentic:
There's a mental picture for you - Ahmadinejad in primal scream therapy with Lindsay Lohan. paschendale191 …
She could comprehend certain primal and analogous characteristics in a hungry wolf-dog or a starving man, and predicate lines of action to be pursued by either under like conditions.
I like using the term primal scream in advocating the end of homelessness, because it instills a sense of desperation in an economic system that is sadly spewing out homelessness in cities around the world.
So that when we come to look at liberalism in a critical spirit, we have to expect that there will be a discrepancy between what I have called the primal imagination of liberalism and its present particular imagination.
She hadn't told me any of that, but apparently, my intuition was spot on because at that point Joanne curled up in a ball and started sobbing uncontrollably and nearly dry heaving in what I can best describe as primal agony.