primal

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A primal cut (of meat).
动词 v.
  1. To take part in primal therapy. intransitive
    — One of my patients told me of an acquaintance who primaled in the shopping center. Janov described a patient who primaled on the tennis court. Apparently, once initiated, patients primal in any place at any time for the rest of their lives.
形容词 adj.
  1. Being the first in time or in history. not-comparable
    — primal man
  2. Of greatest importance; primary. not-comparable
    — The most primal motion of all, of course, is vertical—a steady eternal fall into the infinity of space; speed cannot be ascribed to them, since, given the infinity of space and the absolute steadiness of the fall, no [relative] standard for it exists at all.
  3. Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts. not-comparable

词形变化

primals plural primals present,singular,third-person primaling US,participle,present primalling UK,participle,present primaled US,participle,past primaled US,past primalled UK,participle,past primalled UK,past

词汇关系

衍生词
nonprimal primal horde primality primally primal scene primal scream primal therapist primal therapy subprimal

词源

词源 1
Probably partly from Medieval Latin prīmālis, from Latin prīmus (“first”) + -ālis, and partly from prime + -al.
词源 2
Probably partly from Medieval Latin prīmālis, from Latin prīmus (“first”) + -ālis, and partly from prime + -al.
词源 3
Probably partly from Medieval Latin prīmālis, from Latin prīmus (“first”) + -ālis, and partly from prime + -al.
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