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primary

adjective
  1. Most important, influential, or significant: capital, cardinal, chief, first, foremost, key, leading, main, major, number one, paramount, premier, prime, principal, top. See important
  2. Preceding all others in time: earliest, first, initial, maiden, original, pioneer, prime, primordial. See start
  3. Not derived from something else: original, prime, primitive. See start
  4. Arising from or going to the root or source: basal, basic, foundational, fundamental, original, radical, underlying. See surface
  5. Marked by the absence of any intervention: direct, firsthand, immediate. See clear, near

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