(also primaeval) adjective [usuallybeforenoun]
1 from the earliest period of the history of the world, very ancient:
primeval rocks / forests * primeval soup (= the mixture of gases and substances that is thought to have existed when the earth was formed and from which life started)
2 (formal) (of a feeling, or a desire) very strong and not based on reason, as if from the earliest period of human life:
primeval instincts / urges
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