Hypertext Webster Gateway: "elemental"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary;
elementary. ``The elemental rules of erudition.''
--Cawthorn.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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
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