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elemental
[el-uh-men-tl]
adjective
of the nature of an ultimate constituent; simple; uncompounded.
pertaining to rudiments or first principles.
starkly simple, primitive, or basic.
a spare, elemental prose style; hate, lust, and other elemental emotions.
pertaining to the agencies, forces, or phenomena of physical nature.
elemental gods.
comparable to the great forces of nature, as in power or magnitude.
elemental grandeur.
of, relating to, or of the nature of the four elements, earth, water, air, and fire, or of any one of them.
pertaining to chemical elements.
elemental
/ ˌɛɪˈɛԳə /
adjective
fundamental; basic; primal
the elemental needs of man
motivated by or symbolic of primitive and powerful natural forces or passions
elemental rites of worship
of or relating to earth, air, water, and fire considered as elements
of or relating to atmospheric forces, esp wind, rain, and cold
of, relating to, or denoting a chemical element
noun
rarea spirit or force that is said to appear in physical form
Other Word Forms
- elementally adverb
- nonelemental adjective
- nonelementally adverb
- postelemental adjective
- preelemental adjective
- subelemental adjective
- subelementally adverb
- transelemental adjective
- unelemental adjective
- unelementally adverb
- ˌˈԳٲ adverb
- ˌˈԳٲˌ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of elemental1
Example Sentences
"They can continue their journey and that journey is to de-compose, to become elemental again and their spirit allowed to travel on," he said.
“American events, world events, felt intense and still do … It’s the feeling of elemental forces versus human beings, and that will never go out of fashion.”
One really important form of social attention is so elemental to human life that it is the necessary precondition to survive.
Beyond politics, Torres thinks “I’m Still Here” has done so well around the world because audiences feel an elemental empathy for a mother and her children in distress.
Nonetheless, the film’s visual sensibility was guided by elemental factors inherent to the scenes, which so often pivot around movement and physical contact.
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