Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

primally

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pri-mal-ly
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a primal manner.

Example Sentences

"As we stepped out into the awesome half-daylight of this monstrous cylinder-bottom—fifty million years old, and without doubt the most primally ancient structure ever to meet our eyes—we saw that the ramp-traversed sides stretched dizzily up to a height of fully sixty feet."
"The discrepancy is striking and cannot be explained by size, as the smallest are the most massive, and if all were primally of like constitution, should be the least compressed."

Etymology

From primal + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: primal

Inflected Forms

more primally (comparative) most primally (superlative)

Questions

What does primally mean?: In a primal manner.
Where does primally come from?: From primal + -ly.

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