monumental vs primal

monumental

adj
  • a monumental task 

  • Large, grand and imposing. 

  • In the manner of a monument. 

  • Taking a great amount of time and effort to complete. 

  • Relating to monuments. 

primal

adj
  • Of greatest importance; primary. 

  • Being the first in time or in history. 

  • Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts. 

noun
  • A primal cut (of meat). 

verb
  • To take part in primal therapy. 

How often have the words monumental and primal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )