Synonyms of the word

primary

• adj. The first in a group or series.
• adj. Main; principal; placed ahead of others.
• adj. (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
• adj. (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree;…
• adj. (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
• adj. (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners,…
• n. A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
• n. The first year of grade school.
• n. A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
• n. The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system.
• n. A primary school.
• n. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
• n. A primary colour.
• n. (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically…
• v. (US, intransitive) To take part in a primary election.
• v. (US, politics) To challenge an incumbent sitting politician for their political party's endorsement to…

basal

• adj. basic, elementary; relating to, or forming, the base, or point of origin.
• adj. (anatomy) associated with the base of an organism or structure.
• adj. (medicine) a minimal level that is necessary, such as a minimum dose of a drug.
• adj. (chiefly systematics) In a phylogenetic tree, being a group, or member of a group, which diverged earlier…
• n. base, bottom, minimum.
• n. (anatomy) Any basal structure or part.

basic

• adj. Necessary, essential for life or some process.
• adj. Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
• adj. (chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.
• adj. (slang) Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.
• n. A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
• n. An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
• n. (military) Basic training.

capital

• n. (uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such…
• n. (uncountable, business, finance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially…
• n. (countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the…
• n. (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
• n. (countable) An uppercase letter.
• n. (countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
• n. (uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
• adj. Of prime importance.
• adj. Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
• adj. (comparable, Britain, dated) Excellent.
• adj. Involving punishment by death.
• adj. Uppercase.
• adj. Of or relating to the head.

chief

• n. A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc.
• n. (heraldry) The top part of a shield or escutcheon.
• n. An informal address to an equal.
• adj. Primary; principal.
• v. (US, slang) To smoke cannabis.

coil

• n. Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
• n. Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
• n. (electrical) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
• n. (figuratively) Entanglement; perplexity.
• v. To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
• v. To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
• v. To wind cylindrically or spirally.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
• n. (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.

direct

• adj. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
• adj. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
• adj. Straightforward; sincere.
• adj. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
• adj. In the line of descent; not collateral.
• adj. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the…
• adj. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes…
• adj. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.
• adv. Directly.
• v. To manage, control, steer.
• v. To aim (something) at (something else).
• v. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
• v. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
• v. (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom…

election

• n. A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular…
• n. The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
• n. (archaic) Any conscious choice.
• n. (theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
• n. (obsolete) Those who are elected.

elemental

• adj. (chemistry) of, relating to, or being an element (as opposed to a compound).
• adj. basic, fundamental or elementary.
• adj. of the ancient supposed elements of earth, air, fire and water.
• adj. (by extension) of, or relating to a force or nature, especially to severe atmospheric conditions.
• n. (fantasy) A creature (usually a spirit) that is attuned with, or composed of, one of the classical elements:…

elementary

• adj. Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
• adj. Relating to an elementary school.
• adj. (physics) Relating to a subatomic particle.
• adj. (archaic) Sublunary; not celestial; belonging to the sublunary sphere, to which the four classical elements…

essential

• adj. Necessary.
• adj. Very important; of high importance.
• adj. (biology) necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
• adj. Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
• adj. Really existing; existent.
• adj. (of a lamination of a 3-manifold) Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of…
• adj. (medicine) Idiopathic.
• n. A necessary ingredient.
• n. A fundamental ingredient.

first

• adj. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
• adj. Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
• adv. Before anything else; firstly.
• n. (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
• n. (uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
• n. (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
• n. (countable, baseball) first base.
• n. (countable, Britain, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
• n. (countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
• n. A fraction of an integer ending in one.
• n. (obsolete) Time; time granted; respite.

first-string

• adj. describing the members of a sports team who play regularly at the start of a match (rather than being…

firsthand

• adj. Direct, without intermediate stages.
• adj. Not previously owned or used; contrasted with secondhand.

important

• adj. Having relevant and crucial value.

main

• adj. (obsolete) Great in size or degree; vast; strong; powerful; important.
• adj. Principal; prime; chief; leading; of chief or principal importance.
• adj. Principal or chief in size or extent; largest; consisting of the largest part; most important by reason…
• adj. Full; undivided; sheer (of strength, force etc.).
• adj. (nautical) Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
• adj. (dialectal) Big; angry.
• adv. (Britain, dialectal) Very; very much; greatly; mightily; extremely; exceedingly.
• v. (transitive) To mainly play a specific character, or side, when playing a game.
• n. (obsolete, except in might and main) Strength; power; force; violent effort.
• n. That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the gross; the bulk; the greater part.
• n. (informal) The main course, or principal dish of a meal.
• n. (now archaic, US dialectal) The mainland.
• n. (now poetic) The high seas.
• n. A large pipe or cable providing utility service to a building or area, such as water main or electric…
• n. (nautical) The mainsail.
• n. A hand or match in a game of dice.
• n. A stake played for at dice.
• n. The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard.
• n. A match at cockfighting.
• n. A main-hamper, or fruit basket.

original

• adj. (not comparable) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
• adj. (not comparable) First in a series or copies/versions.
• adj. (not comparable) Newly created.
• adj. (comparable) Fresh, different.
• adj. (not comparable) Pioneering.
• adj. (not comparable) Having as its origin.
• n. An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.
• n. A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent.
• n. (archaic) An eccentric.

particular

• adj. (obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
• adj. Specific; discrete; concrete.
• adj. Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
• adj. (obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.
• adj. Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
• adj. (comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious.
• adj. Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
• adj. (law) Containing a part only; limited.
• adj. (law) Holding a particular estate.
• adj. (logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a…
• n. A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.
• n. (obsolete) A person's own individual case.
• n. (now philosophy, chiefly in plural) A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class…

pinion

• n. A wing.
• n. (ornithology) The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
• n. (ornithology) Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
• n. A moth of the genus Lithophane.
• n. (obsolete) A fetter for the arm.
• v. (with the bird or the wing as the object) To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable…
• v. (with the person or the arms as the object) To bind the arms of any one, so as to deprive him of their…
• n. The smallest gear in a gear drive train.

principal

• adj. Primary; most important.
• adj. (obsolete, Latinism) Of or relating to a prince; princely.
• n. (finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are…
• n. (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The chief administrator of a school.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
• n. (law) One who directs another (the agent) to act on one′s behalf.
• n. (law) The primary participant in a crime.
• n. A company represented by a salesperson.
• n. (Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.
• n. (music) A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
• n. (architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss…
• n. The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
• n. One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse…
• n. (obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.
• n. A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
• n. (computing) A security principal.

quill

• n. The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
• n. A pen made from a feather.
• n. (figuratively) Any pen.
• n. A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine…
• n. A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
• n. The pen of a squid.
• n. (music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
• n. (music) The tube of a musical instrument.
• n. Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or…
• v. To pierce or be pierced with quills.
• v. (figuratively) To write.
• v. To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
• v. To decorate with quillwork.
• v. (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving…

special

• adj. Distinguished by a unique or unusual quality.
• adj. Of particular interest or value; certain; dear; beloved; favored.
• adj. (euphemistic) Retarded; mentally handicapped.
• adj. Constituting or relating to a species.
• adj. Chief in excellence.
• adj. (military) Of or related to special forces.
• n. A reduction in consumer cost (usually for a limited time) for items or services rendered.
• n. (broadcasting) Unusual or exceptional episode of a series.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) A special constable.
• n. Anything that is not according to normal practice, plan, or schedule, as an unscheduled run of transportation…
• n. (video games) Special move.
• v. (nursing) To supervise a patient one-on-one.

underived

• adj. not derived, not related.