elemental

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: el=e=ment=al
• COUNT in NET: 2 in 2 verses (in NT : 2 in 2 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

elemental, a. 

•  Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air.  Pope.  [1913 Webster]
•  Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.  Cawthorn.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

elemental, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of the four elements.
2 of the powers of nature (elemental worship).
3 comparable to a force of nature (elemental grandeur; elemental tumult).
4 uncompounded (elemental oxygen).
5 essential.
--n. an entity or force thought to be physically manifested by occult means.

Derivative

elementalism n. (in senses 1, 2).

Etymology

med.L elementalis (as ELEMENT)

THESAURUS

elemental

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