elemental
IPA: ɛɫʌmˈɛntʌɫ
noun
- (mysticism, fantasy) A creature (usually a spirit) that is attuned with, or composed of, one of the classical elements: air, earth, fire and water or variations of them like ice, lightning, etc. They sometimes have unique proper names and sometimes are referred to as Air, Earth, Fire, or Water.
adjective
- (chemistry) Of, relating to, or being an element (as opposed to a compound).
- Basic, fundamental or elementary.
- Of the ancient supposed elements of earth, air, fire and water.
- (by extension) Of, or relating to a force of nature, especially to severe atmospheric conditions.
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Examples of "elemental" in Sentences
- Some would argue that's the reason we lack a certain elemental charisma.
- The warning dose for milk-alkali syndrome is expressed in elemental calcium.
- But Alan Iverson is basketball in elemental form, a guy of tiny stature who just has more game than you can imagine.
- Progressives defend the notion of elemental human rights, the idea of a strong social safety net food, housing, medical care, and education.
- These forms can be organized under three headings: metallic mercury (also known as elemental mercury), inorganic mercury, and organic mercury.
- _littérateur, _ but such as you would imagine the antique heroes to make, -- that of a sweet-blooded, receptive, perfectly normal, catholic man, with, further than that, a look about him that is best suggested by the word elemental or cosmical.
- The most harmful, pure form of chlorine, what is called elemental chlorine, is no longer used to bleach paper in the U.S. Recycled paper is sometimes slightly rougher than paper made of virgin fibers from trees because it is made of shorter fibers or comes from different sources, not because of the bleaching process.
- For the purposes of our present consideration of the non-human inhabitants of the astral plane it will be best to leave out of consideration those very early forms of the universal life which are evolving, in a manner of which we can have little comprehension, through the successive encasement of atoms, molecules and cells: for if we commence at the lowest of what are usually called the elemental kingdoms, we shall even then have to group together under this general heading an enormous number of inhabitants of the astral plane upon whom it will be possible to touch only very slightly, as anything like