Prime

//pɹaɪ̯m//

Synonyms for "prime" (545 found)

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Closest matches (109)

Noun(9 words)

bloom blossom efflorescence flower flush heyday peak blockade choice

choice earliest excellent first flower greatest premier select prime number abecedarian aboriginal acme admirable adolescence adulthood adultness advise age of consent algorismic algorithmic

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Verb(2 words)

ground undercoat

Adjective(1 words)

choice

Strong matches (164)

dayspring decimal deep-dye detonate devotions differential digital dip discharge distemper divine service dominant double-dye drill driving age drop duty dye earlier early

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eastertide educate eject elder elect elemental elementary elite emblazon embryonic enamel engild essential even evening devotions evensong exceptional excite exercises exponential extraordinary face famous fancy fast-dye fat fell fetal figural figurate figurative fine finite fire fire off first blush first brightening first glance first impression first inning first lap first move first rate first round first sight first stage first step first string first-class first-rate first-string flower of age focal for the best fore foregoing forehand foremost formative former forward foundational fractional fresco front frontal full age full bloom full growth fullgrownness fundamental galvanize gambit gestatory get ready get up steam gild glaze gloss golden years grain great greenness groom ground grown-upness gun gun for handpicked head headmost hegemonic heyday highest hit hue humanoid illuminate imaginary imbue impair impossible in embryo in its infancy in the bud inaugural inceptive inchoate inchoative incipient incunabular indivisible infant infantile infinite inform ingrain initial initiative initiatory instruct integral introductory inventive irrational japan juvenility lacquer lauds lay it on thick lay on lay on color le premier pas leading legal age legalis homo

Adjective(5 words)

earliest excellent first greatest indivisible

Noun(3 words)

early bright early morning golden years

Related words (272)

let fly let off light liturgy load logarithmic logometric magisterial maiden main major majority make ready manhood manlihood mark mass master matchless matins

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mature age maturity maytime meeting meridian morn morning devotions motivate move nascent natal negative night song none nones nonesuch nonpareil noteworthy notify novena numeral numerary numerative numeric numerical odd office older opening move optimal optimum ordinal original outstanding overriding overruling paint pair paragon paramount parget parturient patriarchal peak peep of day peerless pelt pepper pick pick off picked piece de resistance pigment pinnacle pioneer pique pistol plug positive possible postnatal pot potshoot potshot praise meeting prayer prayer meeting prayers preadamite preceding precurrent predominant preeminent preexistent preglacial pregnant prehistoric prehuman prenatal prepare preponderant prevailing previous pride primal primary primavera prime of life prime song primeval primitive primitiveness primitivity primogenial primoprimitive primordial primrose principal prior pristine prize procreative protohistoric protohuman provoke puberty pubescence public worship queen quicken quintessence quintessential radical ranking rational real reciprocal reference mark revival revival meeting riddle ripe age riper years royal rudimental rudimentary ruling salt of the earth school seedtime seminal senior service set sext shade shadow shellac shoot shoot at shoot down slap on slather slop on paint smear smear on smooth snipe sovereign special spread spread on spread with spring springtide springtime stain star steam up stellar stimulate stipple strike stuff with knowledge submultiple sunrise sunup superb supereminent superior superlative supreme surd surpassing swingeing take a potshot tar teach tent meeting the best the best ever the tops the very best tierce tinct tincture tinge tint toga virilis tone top top notch topflight topmost tops torpedo train transcendental tutor undercoat underived undersong unmatchable unmatched unparalleled unsurpassed uppermost ur varnish very best vesper vespers vestibule of day vigil vigils virility warm up warming-up wash watch meeting watch night watch-night service whitewash wind wind up womanhood womanlihood worthy years of discretion youth youthfulness zenith

Adjective(7 words)

main most important original primary principal top top quality

Adjective(5 words)

meridian premier prize quality select

Noun(8 words)

morning prime number prime of life prime quantity prize quality select white

Related word relations

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12 relation types

More general

17 entries

adulthood canonical hour fill fill up fix gear up make full maturity number paint period period of time prepare ready set set up

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More specific

111 entries

Bell prime Carol prime Catalan prime Chen prime Cuban prime Cullen prime Eisenstein prime without imaginary part Euclid prime Euclid-Mullin Sequence prime Euler irregular prime Fermat prime Fibonacci prime Gaussian prime Genocchi prime Gilda's prime Higgs prime for squares

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Antonyms

1 entries

composite

Synonyms

12 entries

bloom choice earliest excellent flower greatest ground indivisible meridian premier prime number select

Related terms

5 entries

Primates primal primary primate primy

derived

79 entries

Belphegor's prime Eisenstein prime almost prime antiprime backprime book of prime entry co-prime crossprime cuban prime deprime essential prime implicant eta prime in prime twig interprime megaprime misprime

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distinct from

1 entries

divisors

has context

17 entries

algebra backgammon card games chemistry christianity cycling dialect fencing film historical lay math mathematics music number theory technical

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is a

3 entries

adulthood canonical hour number

manner of

3 entries

fill fix paint

related to

85 entries

age apply appoint beef block canonical hour charge chief closed coach coat complement consecutive country daylight derivation

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similar

5 entries

1st first mature superior

Translations

327 translations across 37 languages.

Ancient Greek

1 entries

ἀκμή noun (most active, thriving, or successful stage or period)

Arabic

2 entries

فَاخِر adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
مُمْتَاز adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)

Bulgarian

4 entries

главен adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
основен adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
превъзходен adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
прост adj (mathematics: having no factors except itself and unity)

Catalan

4 entries

primari adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
primaria adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
primer adj (mathematics: having no factors except itself and unity)
primordial adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

一流 adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
上等 adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
主要 adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
優質 /优质 adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)

Czech

3 entries

prima noun (music: first note or tone of a musical scale)
prima noun (backgammon: six consecutive blocks)
prvočíslo noun (algebra: prime element of a mathematical structure)

Danish

4 entries

første adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
førsteklasses adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
hoved adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
primtal adj (mathematics: having no factors except itself and unity)

Dutch

4 entries

beste adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
eerste adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
eerste adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
priem adj (mathematics: having no factors except itself and unity)

Esperanto

3 entries

prima adj (mathematics: having no factors except itself and unity)
unuaranga adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
unuaranga adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)

Estonian

3 entries

algarv adj (mathematics: having no factors except itself and unity)
esimene adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
parim adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)

Finnish

4 entries

alku adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
alku adj (mathematics: having its complement closed under multiplication)
ensi adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
ensiluokkainen adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)

French

4 entries

de premier ordre adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
excellent adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
premier adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
premier adj (mathematics: having no factors except itself and unity)

Galician

1 entries

imprimar verb (to apply a coat of primer paint to)

German

4 entries

erste adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
prim adj (mathematics: having no factors except itself and unity)
Blüte noun (most active, thriving, or successful stage or period)
Blütezeit noun (most active, thriving, or successful stage or period)

Greek

4 entries

εκλεκτός adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
πρωταρχικός adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
πρώτος adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
πρώτος adj (mathematics: having no factors except itself and unity)

Hebrew

3 entries

מצויין adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
ראשוני adj (mathematics: having no factors except itself and unity)
ראשי adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)

Hindi

4 entries

अभाज्य adj (mathematics: having no factors except itself and unity)
प्रथम adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
प्रथम adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
प्राथमिक adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)

Hungarian

4 entries

első adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
elsődleges adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
fő adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
fő adj (mathematics: having its complement closed under multiplication)

Ido

2 entries

precipua adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
primordiala adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)

Italian

4 entries

di prima categoria adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
di prima qualità adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
di prima scelta adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
iniziale adj (first in time, order, or sequence)

Japanese

4 entries

最初 adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
最良 adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
最適 adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
最重要 adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)

Korean

1 entries

한창 noun (most active, thriving, or successful stage or period)

Latin

3 entries

flōs noun (most active, thriving, or successful stage or period)
prima noun (first hour after dawn)
prima noun (Christianity: the liturgical service of the first hour of daylight)

Māori

4 entries

pūharu adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
pūwharu adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
tetere adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
toitū adj (mathematics: having no factors except itself and unity)

Old English

4 entries

fruma noun (earliest stage)
prīm noun (first hour after dawn)
prīm noun (Christianity: the liturgical service of the first hour of daylight)
prīmsang noun (Christianity: the liturgical service of the first hour of daylight)

Old Irish

4 entries

prím adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
prím adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
prím adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
prím adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)

Persian

1 entries

بهترین adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)

Polish

4 entries

pierwsza adj (mathematics: having no factors except itself and unity)
pierwszy adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
pierwszy adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
pierwszy adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)

Portuguese

4 entries

de primeira adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
primeira adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
primeira adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
primeiro adj (first in time, order, or sequence)

Romanian

1 entries

prim adj (mathematics: having no factors except itself and unity)

Russian

4 entries

важне́йший adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
гла́вный adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
основно́й adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
пе́рвый adj (first in time, order, or sequence)

Slovene

4 entries

praštevilo adj (mathematics: having no factors except itself and unity)
prvenstven adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
prvi adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
prvi adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)

Spanish

4 entries

excelente adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)
primario adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
primero adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
primo adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)

Swedish

4 entries

främst adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
förnämst adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
först adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
förstklassig adj (first in excellence, quality, or value)

Tagalog

2 entries

balho adj (mathematics: having no factors except itself and unity)
lantay adj (mathematics: having no factors except itself and unity)

Turkish

3 entries

asal adj (mathematics: having no factors except itself and unity)
birincil adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
üssü noun (symbol ( ′ ))

Ukrainian

4 entries

головни́й adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
основни́й adj (first in importance, degree, or rank)
пе́рший adj (first in time, order, or sequence)
перви́нний adj (first in time, order, or sequence)

Sample sentences

49 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Prime numbers are like life; they are completely logical, but impossible to find the rules for, even if you spend all your time thinking about it.

Source: tatoeba (1844)

If I were prime minister, I'd give Clinton a good talking to.

Source: tatoeba (25549)

Of course it's difficult to gain access to the Prime Minister.

Source: tatoeba (30531)

That's a matter of prime importance.

Source: tatoeba (42433)

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