Elemental

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Elemental \El`e*men"tal\ ([e^]l`[-e]*m[e^]n"tal), a.
     1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary
        ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the
        material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife."
        --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary;
        elementary. "The elemental rules of erudition."
        --Cawthorn.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  elemental
       adj 1: being or resembling a force of nature; "elemental violence"
       2: being the ultimate or elemental constituents of anything;
          "the elemental stuff of...out of which the many forms of
          life have been molded"- Jack London; "the ultimate
          ingredients of matter"; "his proposal is elegantly simple"
          [syn: {ultimate}]
       3: relating to or being an element; "elemental sulphur"
       4: relating to severe atmospheric conditions; "a race against
          hail or cold rains or some other elemental catastrophe"-
          J.K.Howard

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  126 Moby Thesaurus words for "elemental":
     ab ovo, abecedarian, aboriginal, acid, aerographic, aerologic,
     alkali, antenatal, autochthonous, baric, barographic, barometric,
     basal, basic, basilar, beginning, biochemical, budding, central,
     chemical, chemicobiological, chemicoengineering,
     chemicomineralogical, chemicophysical, chemurgic, climatologic,
     connate, constituent, constitutional, constitutive, copolymeric,
     copolymerous, creative, crucial, cyclonic, deep-seated, dimeric,
     dimerous, electrochemical, elemental spirit, elementary, embryonic,
     essential, fetal, formative, foundational, fundamental, generative,
     genetic, germinal, gestatory, gnome, gut, heteromerous,
     high-pressure, in embryo, in its infancy, in ovo, in the bud,
     inaugural, inborn, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient,
     incunabular, infant, infantile, ingrained, inherent, initial,
     initiative, initiatory, innate, intimate, intrinsic, introductory,
     inventive, isobaric, isomerous, isometric, isopiestic,
     macrochemical, macroclimatic, material, metameric, meteorologic,
     microclimatic, microclimatologic, monomerous, nascent, natal,
     nonacid, of the essence, original, parturient, photochemical,
     physicochemical, phytochemical, polymeric, postnatal, pregnant,
     prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial,
     primordial, pristine, procreative, protogenic, radical,
     radiochemical, rudimental, rudimentary, salamander, seminal,
     substantial, substantive, sylph, thermochemical, underlying,
     undine, ur