elementary
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- adjective
- /ˌɛlɪˈmɛnˌtɛri/
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- The math quiz was filled with elementary problems that everyone could answer.
- even the most elementary
- elementary level
- elementary education
Everything were kind of like Wikipedia five years ago, elementary and often wrong.
- Everything were kind of like Wikipedia five years ago, elementary and often wrong.
- It's got questions on there that you can do with an elementary knowledge of high school physics.
- But no, seriously, the all the physics of this stuff is very elementary.
- Feynman's scientific style was always to look for the simplest, most elementary solution to a problem that was possible.
- And we're going to enter into the study of it today in a very, very, very elementary way.
- What those judgements of beauty are with those pictures are the most elementary judgements on the least possible evidence that we could possibly have.
- It was a very simple and very elementary like first year plebe flanking move.
Examples
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Feynman's scientific style was always to look for the simplest, most elementary solution to a problem that was possible.
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OK, so I'm going a bit fast, but these are very elementary manipulations.
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Maybe we'll have better luck with more elementary questions.
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It's got questions on there that you can do with an elementary knowledge of high school physics.
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My questions might be elementary.
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It's an elementary experiment in courtesy.
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It's a standard elementary calculus theorem.
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We were struck by one comment from an elementary music teacher who works in southeastern Vermont.
Academic text (1991) -
Zaremski: What is so elementary about cross-examination is the logic of human nature.
Academic text (2000) -
As usual, Jeremy Milligan had walked from his elementary school to his uncle's pet store.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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Not hard to do, understand, or achieve
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Something that is easy to understand and clear
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Simple and clear so most people can know what it means quickly
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Easy to understand or deal with
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Easy to deal with or understand
Very easy to do or understand
A very simple thing with almost no features or comfort
Antonyms
Compounds
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A school for children between five and eleven that teaches reading, writing, and basic math
- Specialized
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A very small part of matter that you cannot break into smaller pieces, like an electron or quark
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The first part of school that teaches reading, writing and math to young children
Study of basic shapes like triangles and circles and simple facts about lines and angles
How Easy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Elementary comes from element (from Latin elementum) meaning 'basic part' or 'first idea'. So something elementary is easy because it deals with the simple, basic parts of a problem.