adjective. Belonging to the first or earliest age or ages; original or ancient.

Of or belonging to the first ages; original; primal; primitive.

Synonyms Primitive, etc. See primary.

adjective. Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary.

adjective. Belonging to the first ages.

adjective. Primary; original.

adjective. Primitive.

adjective. having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state

"Herbert urged that he must at least admit that there was a freshness of legend and poetry in what we call the primeval peoples that is wanting now; the mythic period is gone, at any rate."

early  

evil  medieval  retrieval  upheaval  weavil  

aboriginal  barbaric  boundless  celestial  cosmic  

-ol  abecedarian  aboriginal  ancestral  ancient