Adjective: primary
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more primary |
| Superlative | most primary |
Sample Sentences
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Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.
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the church of Christ, in its primary institution [1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed:]
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, Book II, Chapter VIII
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These I call original, or primary, qualities of body.
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Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.
Adjectives inflected like primary
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin prīmārius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from prīmus (first; whence the English adjective prime) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier. Doublet of premier. See: Latin Adjectives '
prīmārius', French Adjectives '
primaire'.
Verbs referencing "primary"
Finnish Adjectives
primaari, Finnish Adjectives
primaarinen.