About The Word Elementary
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Elementary
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What's The Definition Of Elementary?
[adj] 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"
[adj] of or being the essential or basic part; "an elementary need for love and nurturing" Synonyms | Synonyms for Elementary: basic | easy | primary | simple | uncomplicated | unproblematic Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | Elementary In Webster's Dictionary \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.
2. Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or
first principles of anything; initial; rudimental;
introductory; as, an elementary treatise.
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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