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primary
Synonyms and Antonyms of primary
- the primary concern for many house hunters is the asking price
arch, big, capital, cardinal, central, chief, dominant, first, foremost, grand, great, greatest, highest, key, leading, main, master, number one (also No. 1), numero uno, overbearing, overmastering, overriding, paramount, predominant, preeminent, premier, primal, principal, prior, sovereign (also sovran), supreme
- a crop failure that was the primary cause of the famine
- the movieʼs primary screenwriter
controlling, directing, managing, officiating, overseeing, regnant, reigning, ruling, supervisory
main, major, paramount, predominant, predominate, sovereign (also sovran)
ascendant (also ascendent), dominant, grand, superior, topmost, upmost, upper, uppermost
- a few minutes of primary instruction in the use of our diving gear before we actually got into the water
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