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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
/ ĖɱōÉŖĖ³¾É²Ō³ŁÉ±ō /
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
rareĢża spirit or force that is said to appear in physical form
Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms
- elementally adverb
- nonelemental adjective
- nonelementally adverb
- postelemental adjective
- preelemental adjective
- subelemental adjective
- subelementally adverb
- transelemental adjective
- unelemental adjective
- unelementally adverb
- Ė±š±ō±šĖ³¾±š²Ō³Ł²¹±ō±ō²ā adverb
- Ė±š±ō±šĖ³¾±š²Ō³Ł²¹±ōĖ¾±²õ³¾ noun
51³Ō¹Ļ 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.
āAmerican events, world events, felt intense and still do ā¦ Itās the feeling of elemental forces versus human beings, and that will never go out of fashion.ā
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 āIām Still Hereā has done so well around the world because audiences feel an elemental empathy for a mother and her children in distress.
Nonetheless, the filmās visual sensibility was guided by elemental factors inherent to the scenes, which so often pivot around movement and physical contact.
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