Skip to main content

elemental

/el-uh-men-tl/US // ˌɛl əˈmɛn tl //UK // (ˌɛlɪˈmɛntəl) //

元素,元素性的,元素性,元素的

Related Words

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of the nature of an ultimate constituent; simple; uncompounded.
    • : pertaining to rudiments or first principles.
    • : starkly simple, primitive, or basic: a spare, elemental prose style; hate, lust, and other elemental emotions.
    • : pertaining to the agencies, forces, or phenomena of physical nature: elemental gods.
    • : comparable to the great forces of nature, as in power or magnitude: elemental grandeur.
    • : of, relating to, or of the nature of the four elements, earth, water, air, and fire, or of any one of them.
    • : pertaining to chemicalelements.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • I have never had to deal with alkaline soil, but a few farmers have told me the fastest way to correct it is a heavy application of elemental sulfur.

  • So Jupiter’s elemental recipe should resemble the sun’s — at least for elements that were gases.

  • Running fast, jumping high, and throwing objects a long way are elemental human pursuits at the core of many other sports like soccer, football, and basketball.

  • In the early 2000s, Seattle’s boosters marketed the city with an ad campaign called “Metronatural,” showing a kayak atop a car on a downtown street to sell the idea that the great outdoors was elemental to life there.

  • By analyzing the star’s elemental makeup, which is like a star’s genetic instruction book, astronomers peered back into the star’s family history.

  • The word primitive does not do justice to the elemental nature of dining in one of the great barbecue parlors of this region.

  • Instead, like millions of her generation who remember a land before loss, what she really wants is something more elemental.

  • "It's all very elemental," is how designer Phillip Lim described his Spring/Summer 2014 collection.

  • He returned medicine to its most elemental form—a profession that tries to help out someone who is sick.

  • Yet it does point out how elemental health and health care are—for both citizens and those running for election.

  • But there was another storm raging in those streets, more terrible than any elemental warfare.

  • In such, or fitter words, does Camille evoke the Elemental Powers, in this great moment.

  • They deal with the most elemental religious conceptions and are full of the imagery of nature.

  • Behind each of those tiny garret windows lurks life—life in its most elemental costume.

  • There is a time for all things, even for the elemental talk of frontiersmen on a holiday.