1. primordial - Noun
2. primordial - Adjective
3. primordial - Adjective Satellite
First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin; as, primordial condition.
Of or pertaining to the lowest beds of the Silurian age, corresponding to the Acadian and Potsdam periods in American geology. It is called also Cambrian, and by many geologists is separated from the Silurian.
Originally or earliest formed in the growth of an individual or organ; as, a primordial leaf; a primordial cell.
A first principle or element.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhat I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human. Clarice Lispector
The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order. Fred Hoyle
The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the presence of primordial depth all art is but dream and nature. Jean Arp
We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically. Mikhail Bakunin
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego. Terence McKenna
The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place. Clive James