elemental
15
5.2
- adjective
- /ˌɛlɪˈmɛntəl/
:
básico
- Now is a good time to address these most elemental and critical issues.
- the most elemental
- an elemental grasp
- elemental justice
It's it's like I said, it's, it's like the most elemental of sports in some ways.
- It's it's like I said, it's, it's like the most elemental of sports in some ways.
- I love lullabies because they're so elemental.
- I mean, I can I, I know for a fact that certain elemental mistakes were made on my part.
- You need to go back to these elemental, primal human qualities, our sociability.
- There are more elemental actions that we do that we're not enabling people to do.
- They they wanted to be a full body sensory experience and it was something as as kind of elemental as a major scale.
- And you look at that and you go like, that seems so elemental, the idea of just living to run and running to live.
- I cannot explain how much I have been saying recently how elemental failure is to success because this needs to be understood.
Examples
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That means the foundational elemental basic form of consciousness is feeling, and feeling is prerequisite for all other forms of consciousness.
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You need to go back to these elemental, primal human qualities, our sociability.
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It's it's like I said, it's, it's like the most elemental of sports in some ways.
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To be black in the South was thus to live without the most elemental personal security.
Academic text (1997) -
Of course, this kind of survival is elemental to all humanity.
Academic text (2005) -
There was a hard, elemental quality about him that would give any intelligent woman pause.
Fiction book (1995) -
In Ranchipur, the important things in life are the elemental things... such as crops, starvation and weather.
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The loon's wail was at the same time more elemental and more delicate.
Fiction book (2000) -
I've returned to something elemental, and good is coming of it, I think (p. 143).
Academic text (1994) -
Cooking, gardening, and cleaning are all elemental activities that everyone should learn.
Synonyms
∞
2.5
Being most important or basic
536
3.5
Very important and necessary for something to work
144
5.1
A natural part of something that is always there
46
6.2
Most basic and needed for life
36
6.7
A natural, basic part of a person or thing
26
3.9
Forming a natural, basic part of something's structure or character
16
1.1
Basic and most important part of something
15
6.5
Forming a necessary part of something's structure
8
7.0
Relating to the basic and most important part of something
7
4.0
Relating to the most basic parts that make something
3
5.9
A natural and lasting part of a person's body or mind
A quality that is part of something's basic nature
How Basic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Elemental comes from element (Latin elementum) which means a 'basic part' or first building block, and is the same root behind elementary. So, something described as elemental is one of the essential, most basic parts of something.