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Definition of Elemental
1. Adjective. Relating to or being an element. "Elemental sulphur"
2. Adjective. Relating to severe atmospheric conditions. "A race against hail or cold rains or some other elemental catastrophe"
3. Adjective. Of or being the essential or basic part. "An elementary need for love and nurturing"
Definition of Elemental
1. a. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air.
Definition of Elemental
1. Adjective. (chemistry) of, relating to, or being an element (as opposed to a compound) ¹
2. Adjective. basic, fundamental or elementary ¹
3. Adjective. of the ancient supposed elements of earth, air, fire and water ¹
4. Adjective. (context: by extension) of, or relating to a force or nature, especially to severe atmospheric conditions ¹
5. Noun. (fantasy) A creature (usually a spirit) that is attuned with, or composed of, one of the classical elements: air, earth, fire and water. They sometimes have unique proper names and sometimes are referred to as Air, Earth, Fire, or Water. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Elemental
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elemental
Literary usage of Elemental
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Psychology of Musical Talent by Carl Emil Seashore (1919)
"CAPACITY elemental We call the test of a mental capacity elemental when it is so
simple and natural that the resulting record does not vary with training, ..."
2. A Text-book of Elementary Chemistry: Theoretical and Inorganic by George Frederick Barker (1891)
"elemental MOLECULES. 18. Mode of distinguishing elemental from Compound
Molecules.—elemental molecules may be distinguished from those which are compound by ..."
3. Principles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis: A Manual for the Study of by Harvey Washington Wiley (1908)
"Objections to the elemental System.—The objections to the elemental system of
... The proposed elemental system is used only by one State; the common form, ..."
4. Report of the Royal Ontario Nickel Commission: With Appendix by Ontario Royal Nickel Commission, George Thomas Holloway (1917)
"Reducing Sulphur Dioxide to elemental Sulphur The process of WA Hall depends upon
the fact that when a pyritic ore is submitted to the action of a heated ..."
5. Outlines of Systematic Theology: Designed for the Use of Theological Students by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1908)
"It has two forms : elemental Law and Positive Enactment. 1. elemental Law, or
law inwrought into the elements, substances, and forces of the rational and ..."
6. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1917)
"Such was for many people on earth today the beginning of the relationship of mind
and elemental body, the direct and intimate relation of mind with a part ..."
7. The Philosophical Basis of Theism: An Examination of the Personality of Man by Samuel Harris (1883)
"I. Reflection or thought gives no elemental object of knowledge. ... The maxim
that all the elemental objects of thought are given in the primitive ..."
8. An Introduction to Psychology by Mary Whiton Calkins (1908)
"CHAPTER VII THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF EXTENSITY I. THE elemental CONSCIOUSNESS OF ...
l This testimony of introspection to the elemental nature ; extensity has, ..."
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