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Recent Examples of primeval The campground setting has a primeval feel, situated in dense old growth forest along the scenic Smith River, where banana slugs frolic (okay, maybe move slowly and strangely). Jenna Blough, Outside Online, 8 Apr. 2025 The little mountain park lay almost at our feet, a gem of unspoiled primeval beauty. Percy Brown, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2025 About three hours from the capital city of Quito, Ecuador, the cloud forest feels primeval and otherworldly. Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 1 Feb. 2025 The work recalls a kind of primeval decadence, in the best sense of that word. R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for primeval
Recent Examples of Synonyms for primeval
Adjective
  • The photo highlights the relative youth of human civilization by showing a 2,500-year-old temple that is ancient by the yardstick of human lives, alongside the 4.5 billion-year-old disk of Earth's moon, which has watched over humanity since our ancestors emerged from the oceans.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 13 May 2025
  • Drive around the island and catch glimpses of past civilizations: ancient fig trees propped up by wooden crutches; centuries-old windmills that look like giant antique flyswatters; stone walls built by the Moors during the Middle Ages that somehow still look new.
    Julia Chaplin, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • Houde said these mammoth animals are a primitive group of proboscideans ('elephantoids') from which modern elephants evolved.
    Joseph J. Kolb, Fox News, 18 July 2017
  • Many are primitive and remote, and don’t have restrooms or water.
    OregonLive.com, OregonLive.com, 12 July 2017
Adjective
  • Grinderman formed in 2005 as a more raw and primal outlet for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds—a sound more akin to Cave’s early post-punk project the Birthday Party.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 21 May 2025
  • Rayburn partners up with local sheriff Alice Gustafson (Annabelle Wallis) in a somber yet tumultuous pursuit of a killer who uses brutal traps and primal tactics.
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • The existence of any prehistoric apex predators in the islands of the Caribbean used to be doubted.
    Ashley Belanger – May 16, ArsTechnica, 16 May 2025
  • The original show gave the prehistoric reptiles the nature documentary treatment, offering glimpses of a world that was ruled by dinosaurs millions of years ago through the magic of CGI and animatronics.
    Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • So the cosmic dark ages aren’t entirely dark; those clouds of primordial neutral hydrogen are emitting tremendous amounts of 21-cm radiation.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2025
  • George Harrison may be thought of as a holy man, but the primordial ooze his career emerges from is made of cars.
    Kaleb Horton, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Skyrocketing prices might not be top of mind for many consumers this spring, especially in light of significantly lower gas prices at the pump in early May.
    Susan Tompor, USA Today, 20 May 2025
  • On the corner of Broome and Wooster, Rifkin pointed out the 1891 Romanesque Revival warehouse that, in the early seventies, became the performance space the Kitchen.
    Robert Sullivan, New Yorker, 19 May 2025

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“Primeval.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/primeval. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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