Word Meanings - PRISTINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRISTINE)

• Aboriginal
• Primordial
• primeval
• pristine
• autochthonic
• immemorial
• indigenous
• native
• original
• First
• Leading
• primary
• foremost
• primitive
• principal
• highest
• chief
• earliest
• Old
• Aged
• long-standing
• ancient
• preceding
• antiquated
• obsolete
• senile antique
• Original
• Primary
• initiatory
• primordial
• peculiar
• former
• first
• Primeval
• Archaic
• aboriginal

Related words: (words related to PRISTINE)

• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• FOREMOST
  First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army. THat struck the foremost man of all this world. Shak. (more info) superl. of forma first, which is a superl. fr. fore fore; cf. Goth. frumist,
• PRIMORDIALLY
  At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• ANTIQUATION
  The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated. Beaumont.
• PRIMITIVENESS
  The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.
• PRIMEVALLY
  In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• OBSOLETENESS
  Indistinctness; want of development. (more info) 1. The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.
• ANTIQUATED
  Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Ancient; old; antique; obsolete. See
• CHIEFEST
  First or foremost; chief; principal. "Our chiefest courtier." Shak. The chiefest among ten thousand. Canticles v. 10.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• OBSOLETE
  Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive. Syn. -- Ancient; antiquated; old-fashioned; antique; old; disused; neglected. See Ancient. (more info) 1. No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected;
• ANTIQUENESS
  The quality of being antique; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship. We may discover something venerable in the antiqueness of the work. Addison.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• EMANATIVE
  Issuing forth; effluent.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• STERNFOREMOST
  With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
• REGNATIVE
  Ruling; governing.
• POT LEAD
  Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.
• COORDINATIVE
  Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.