Elementary

3 definitions found

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

  Elementary \El`e*men"ta*ry\, a. [L. elementarius: cf. F.
     ['e]l['e]mentaire.]
     1. Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting
        of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an
        elementary substance.
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     2. Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or
        first principles of anything; initial; rudimental;
        introductory; as, an elementary treatise.
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     3. Pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth,
        fire. "Some luminous and fiery impressions in the
        elementary region." --J. Spencer.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  elementary
       adj 1: easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem
              in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a
              simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the
              problem" [syn: {simple}, {uncomplicated}, {unproblematic}]
       2: of or being the essential or basic part; "an elementary need
          for love and nurturing" [syn: {primary}]

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

  134 Moby Thesaurus words for "elementary":
     ab ovo, abecedarian, aboriginal, acid, alkali, antenatal, austere,
     autochthonous, bare, basal, basic, basilar, beginning, biochemical,
     budding, central, chaste, chemical, chemicobiological,
     chemicoengineering, chemicomineralogical, chemicophysical,
     chemurgic, clear, component, constituent, constitutive,
     copolymeric, copolymerous, creative, crucial, dimeric, dimerous,
     easy, electrochemical, elemental, embryonic, essential, fetal,
     formative, foundational, fundamental, generative, genetic,
     germinal, gestatory, gut, heteromerous, homely, homespun,
     homogeneous, in embryo, in its infancy, in ovo, in the bud,
     inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular,
     indivisible, infant, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory,
     integral, integrant, introductory, inventive, irreducible,
     isomerous, macrochemical, material, mere, metameric, monolithic,
     monomerous, nascent, natal, nonacid, of a piece, of the essence,
     original, parturient, photochemical, physicochemical,
     phytochemical, plain, polymeric, postnatal, prefatory, pregnant,
     preliminary, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive,
     primogenial, primordial, pristine, procreative, protogenic, pure,
     pure and simple, radical, radiochemical, rude, rudimental,
     rudimentary, seminal, severe, simon-pure, simple, single, spare,
     stark, straightforward, substantial, substantive, thermochemical,
     unadorned, uncluttered, uncomplicated, underlying, understandable,
     undifferenced, undifferentiated, uniform, unsubtle, ur