Elemental
[,elɪ'ment(ə)l] or [,ɛlɪ'mɛntl]
Definition
(adj.) relating to or being an element; 'elemental sulphur' .
(adj.) relating to severe atmospheric conditions; 'a race against hail or cold rains or some other elemental catastrophe'- J.K.Howard .
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Definition
(a.) Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air.
(a.) Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
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Examples
- When Ursula had gone, Gudrun felt her own existence had become stark and elemental. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- We know, for instance, that minerals and the elemental substances can be thus arranged. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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