[el-uh-men-tl] 
| 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. |
| el·e·men·tal (ěl'ə-měn'tl) adj.
el'e·men'tal·ly adv. |
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