adjective
- Serving as an essential component.
- usage: "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"
- synonyms: cardinal, central, fundamental, key
- Having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state.
- usage: "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life"
- synonyms: aboriginal, primeval, primaeval, primordial
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