单词 | elemental |
释义 | elemental —elementally, adv. /el'euh men"tl/, adj. 1. of the nature of an ultimate constituent; simple; uncompounded. 2. pertaining to rudiments or first principles. 3. starkly simple, primitive, or basic: a spare, elemental prose style; hate, lust, and other elemental emotions. 4. pertaining to the agencies, forces, or phenomena of physical nature: elemental gods. 5. comparable to the great forces of nature, as in power or magnitude: elemental grandeur. 6. of, pertaining to, or of the nature of the four elements, earth, water, air, and fire, or of any one of them. 7. pertaining to chemical elements. [1485-95; < ML elementalis. See ELEMENT, -AL1] |
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