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| Main Entry: | aboriginal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | belonging to one, existing in a place since prehistory |
| Synonyms: | ancient, earliest, endemic, first, indigenous, native, original, primary, primeval, primitive, primordial |
| Antonyms: | foreign |
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| Main Entry: | aborigine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | first inhabitant |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, native, primitive, autochthon, bushman, indigene |
| Main Entry: | indigenous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | native, inborn |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, autochthonous, congenital, domestic, endemic, homegrown, inbred, inherent, inherited, innate, natural, original, primitive, chthonic, connate, unacquired |
| Antonyms: | alien, foreign |
| Main Entry: | native |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person born in the country in which he/she dwells |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, aborigine, ancient, citizen, dweller, inhabitant, local, national, autochthon, home towner, indigene |
| Antonyms: | alien, foreigner, immigrant, stranger |
| Main Entry: | primal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | primeval; primary |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, ancient, central, chief, earliest, early, first, fundamental, highest, old, original, paramount, past, prehistoric, primitive, primordial, principal, pristine |
| Main Entry: | cave dweller |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | someone who dwells in a cave |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, caveman, troglodyte |
| Main Entry: | early |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in the beginning |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, ancient, antecedent, antediluvian, antiquated, budding, early bird*, fresh, initial, new, original, preceding, premier, previous, primal, prime, primeval, primitive, primordial, prior, pristine, raw, recent, undeveloped, young, a bit previous, brand-new, prevenient, proleptical |
| Antonyms: | late |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | first |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earliest in order |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, ahead, antecedent, anterior, basic, beginning, cardinal, early, elementary, first off*, front, fundamental, head, incipient, initial, introductory, key, leading, least, number one, opening, original, pioneer, premier, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, rudimentary, headmost, in the beginning, inaugural, inceptive, lead off*, numero uno, primogenial, right up front, slightest, smallest |
| Antonyms: | final, last |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | original |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earliest |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, archetypal, authentic, autochthonous, beginning, early, elementary, embryonic, first, genuine, infant, initial, introductory, opening, pioneer, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, rudimentary, starting, commencing, first-hand, inceptive, prototypal, rudimental, underivative, underived |
| Antonyms: | derivative, latest, newest |
| Main Entry: | savage |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wild, untamed |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, ancient, archaic, barbarian, barbaric, bestial, brutal, brute, crude, earliest, feral, ferocious, fierce, first, fundamental, harsh, lupine, native, natural, original, primary, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, rough, rude, rugged, rustic, simple, turbulent, unbroken, uncivilized, uncultivated, uncultured, unrestrained, unspoiled, vicious, in a state of nature, nonliterate, undomesticated, unmodified |
| Antonyms: | calm, civilized, domesticated, tame |
| Main Entry: | native |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | domestic, home |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, autochthonous, belonging, endemic, from, homegrown, homemade, indigenous, inland, internal, local, municipal, national, original, primary, primeval, primitive, regional, related, vernacular |
| Antonyms: | foreign, outside |
| Main Entry: | old |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obsolete, outdated |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, bygone, crumbling, dated, decayed, done, early, erstwhile, former, hackneyed*, immemorial, late, moth-eaten*, old-fashioned, old-time, once, onetime, original, out-of-date, outmoded, passé, past, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine, quondam, relic, remote, rusty, sometime, stale, superannuated, traditional, unfashionable, unoriginal, venerable, worn-out, age-old, cast-off, demode, of old, of yore, olden, oldfangled, time-worn |
| Antonyms: | contemporary, current, fresh, late, modern, new, recent, up-to-date |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | primary/prime |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earliest |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, beginning, direct, first, firsthand, immediate, initial, original, pioneer, primal, primeval, primitive, primordial, pristine |
| Antonyms: | final, latest |
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| Main Entry: | antiquity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
time, Ogygian, aboriginal, after age, ancient, antediluvian, antemundane, antiquated, antique, archaic, behind the age, classic, crumbling, customary, diluvian, elder, eldest, exploded, first, fossil, fusty, gone by, gone out, immemorial, inusitate, inveterate, medieval, obsolete, of long standing, of other times, of the old school, old, old, old as Adam, old as Methuselah, old as history, old as the hills, palaeozoic, patriarchal, preadamite, preglacial, prehistoric, prerafaelite, prescriptive, prime, primeval, primigenous, primitive, primordial, primordinate, protogenal, relict, rococo, rooted, run out, secondhand, senile, stale, superannuated, venerable, vetust, whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary
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| Main Entry: | beginning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
aboriginal, aliunde, at the breast, baby, babyish, beginning, begun, boyish, callow, childish, embryonic, first, foremost, girlish, in arms, in long clothes, in one's teens, in swaddling clothes, in the cradle, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, infantile, infantine, initial, initiative, initiatory, innascible, introductory, just begun, kittenish, leading, maiden, mewling, nascent, natal, neonatal, new-born, new-fledged, paronymous, postnatal, postpartum, primeval, primogenial, puerile, puling, rudimental, shardborn, tootlish, unfledged, variorum
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| Main Entry: | cause |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
aboriginal, agnogenic, ambiotic, cacestogenous, causal, connate, efficacious, embryonic, embryotic, germinal, original, originated, primary, primitive, primordial, princeps, radical, seminal, subjacent
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