Primary

Definition:

• (a.) First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.
• (a.) First in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools.
• (a.) First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.
• (a.) Earliest formed; fundamental.
• (a.) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
• (n.) That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter.
• (n.) A primary meeting; a caucus.
• (n.) One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See Plumage, and Illust. of Bird.
• (n.) A primary planet; the brighter component of a double star. See under Planet.

Compare primary with other words:

discourse vs. primary

inca vs. primary

estimable vs. primary

potent vs. primary

cardinal vs. primary

distinguished vs. primary

primacy vs. primary

majority vs. primary

italic vs. primary

medium vs. primary

chief vs. primary

core vs. primary

primary vs. tradition

primary vs. score

primary vs. roe

primary vs. tincture

primary vs. relief

predominant vs. primary

modal vs. primary

manner vs. primary

identified vs. primary

holy vs. primary

factor vs. primary

early vs. primary

constituent vs. primary

boundary vs. primary

phrasing vs. primary

grant vs. primary

complication vs. primary

foremost vs. primary

preponderant vs. primary

preeminent vs. primary

primary vs. pristine

primary vs. primus

complementary vs. primary

primary vs. soundage

execute vs. primary

primary vs. territorial

cor vs. primary

essential vs. primary

history vs. primary

implicit vs. primary

descriptive vs. primary

correspondence vs. primary

carefully vs. primary

important vs. primary

nominal vs. primary

primary vs. suggestive

miss vs. primary

main vs. primary

connotatively vs. primary

continuous vs. primary

cross vs. primary

primary vs. province

paramount vs. primary

primary vs. septenary

primary vs. senary

denotative vs. primary

denary vs. primary

primary vs. ultimate

death vs. primary

limpid vs. primary

primary vs. trademark

meritorious vs. primary

pictogram vs. primary

primary vs. shift

primary vs. telepathy

art vs. primary

character vs. primary

primary vs. show

ease vs. primary

primary vs. uncertainty

mannerism vs. primary

primary vs. record

politics vs. primary

primary vs. verbal

breton vs. primary

author vs. primary

mina vs. primary

news vs. primary

passageway vs. primary

elementary vs. primary

clearer vs. primary

flagship vs. primary

primary vs. principally

commodity vs. primary

primary vs. seminal

primal vs. primary

expressible vs. primary

gas vs. primary

master vs. primary

primary vs. prime

primary vs. principal

primary vs. primer

primary vs. responsible

arch vs. primary

primary vs. transformer

manus vs. primary

irreducible vs. primary

fundamental vs. primary

base vs. primary

primary vs. quaternary

primary vs. tertiary

primarily vs. primary

primary vs. school

constitution vs. primary

effect vs. primary

primary vs. thrust

primary vs. tree

first vs. primary

primary vs. refractive

primary vs. secondary

general vs. primary

primary vs. verb

primary vs. subjective

primary vs. truth

primary vs. understandable

patronymic vs. primary

hieroglyph vs. primary

group vs. primary

grok vs. primary

earn vs. primary

dictionary vs. primary

approximate vs. primary

caucus vs. primary

card vs. primary

government vs. primary

follow vs. primary

finitude vs. primary

detach vs. primary

controvert vs. primary

commendation vs. primary

primary vs. sable

primary vs. tint

denotation vs. primary

colourless vs. primary

army vs. primary

primary vs. war