Great
Great adjective - Coming before all others in importance.
Usage example: regards global warming as the great issue of the day
Primary and great are semantically related. in important topic. In some cases you can use "Primary" instead an adjective "Great", when it comes to topics like major, chief, foremost.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- An advertising campaign by Dole in the 1970s used to sing "...those nice pineapple people, and a great banana too." At the time, Dole's primary products were pineapple products and bananas.
Source: Dualvertisement -
Though not "dumb", his primary function (was?) is combat, but he has a great personality, once you get past his scaredy-cat nature.
Source: Gentle Giant -
The game is heavily geared to dual-class, and unsurprisingly, these two work great in combination, whichever is primary.
Source: Necromancer
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Primary and Great. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/great/primary
Great & Primary. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/great/primary>.
Primary or Great. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/great/primary.
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