Dictionary Entry
primary
primary is a 7-letter English word with 18 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.
- 2adjective
First in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools.
- 3adjective
First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.
- 4adjective
Earliest formed; fundamental.
- 5adjective
Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- 6noun
That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter.
- 7noun
A primary meeting; a caucus.
- 8noun
One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See Plumage Illust. of Bird.
- 9noun
A primary planet; the brighter component of a double star. See under Planet.
- 10noun
a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
- 11noun
one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
- 12noun
coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit
"current through the primary coil induces current in the secondary coil"
- 13noun
(astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
- 14adjective
not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
"a primary instinct"
- 15adjective
of primary importance
Synonyms
- 16adjective
most important element
"the chief aim of living"
"the main doors were of solid glass"
- 17adjective
of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
"primary goals"
"a primary effect"
- 18adjective
of or being the essential or basic part
"an elementary need for love and nurturing"
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