Elementary

Quick meaning: Elementary is an adjective meaning Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.

Meaning

Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.

More Meanings

1. Very simple.
2. Relating to an elementary school.
3. (sciences) Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.
4. (countable and uncountable, informal) Ellipsis of elementary school.
5. (countable, mythology, mysticism) A supernatural being associated with the elements.
6. (mathematics, of an argument or proof) Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.).
7. (archaic) Sublunary; not celestial; belonging to the sublunary sphere, to which the four classical elements (earth, air, fire and water) were confined; composed of or pertaining to these four elements.

Example Sentences

At Lakeside Elementary I learned to appreciate the forest.

He was my dentist. My mom took me to him back in elementary and junior high.

The demon (or elementary) of the South-West wind was particularly dreaded, as being the gini of fever and madness.

[…] the spiritual man is either translated like Enoch and Elias to the higher state, or falls down lower than an elementary again […]

Word Forms

• elementar
• elem
• elementaries

Synonyms for elementary

Depending on context, synonyms include easy, simple, uncomplicated, basic, primary, unproblematic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include basal, primary, basic, beginning, abecedarian, easy.

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