| a. | 1. | Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; |
| 2. | Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary. |
| Adj. | 1. | elemental - being or resembling a force of nature; "elemental violence" |
| 2. | elemental - being the ultimate or elemental constituents of anything; "the elemental stuff of...out of which the many forms of life have been molded"- Jack London; "the ultimate ingredients of matter"; "his proposal is elegantly simple" Synonyms: ultimate | |
| 3. | elemental - relating to or being an element; "elemental sulphur" | |
| 4. | elemental - relating to severe atmospheric conditions; "a race against hail or cold rains or some other elemental catastrophe"- J.K.Howard |
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