elementally
1
5.5
- adverb
- /ˌɛlɪˈmɛntəli/
:
elementalmente
- At its elementally basic level, happiness comes from relationships and personal fulfillment.
Examples
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At the heart of the matter may well be the elementally different perspectives on kinship held by archaeologists and Native Americans.
Academic text (2011) -
The artist aimed to capture the elementally raw beauty of nature in her paintings.
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There was something elementally different here, and he couldn't precisely put his finger on exactly what.
Fiction book (1997) -
Only there, under the protection of Candy's delicate efficiency, did she feel elementally linked to Ben, or even elementally alive.
Fiction book (1996) -
Only there, under the protection of Candy's delicate efficiency, did she feel elementally linked to Ben, or even elementally alive.
Fiction book (1996) -
It is easy to get stuck in the symbols and images that emerge elementally in our dreams.
Academic text (1993) -
Elementally, it was a gambling town, what I considered a full-scale, interactive Dali.
Academic text (2007) -
Still, this is not a problem of vocabulary alone; more elementally, I submit, it is a structural one, a presenting problem to pedagogy and scholarship alike.
Academic text (2004) -
(Don't be confused by ECF, "Elementally Chlorine-Free," which uses other types of chlorine, just not its "elemental" form.)
Blog text (29) -
Rather than becoming subsumed into a larger worldview, her Irish outlook remains specifically and elementally present: this is because, as she wrote while reviewing a book on modern Irish history, "nothing in Ireland is ever over" (Collected Impressions 173).
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To say the main or most important point
745
3.4
Mostly in the main or basic sense
181
3.9
In a basic way that shows what is most important
119
4.7
Happens naturally as a basic part of something
22
6.4
Part of the basic nature of something
13
4.9
In a way that fits naturally into the whole
8
5.6
In a natural way that someone has from birth
1
5.8
In a way that is necessary for the whole to work
1
5.9
In a way that affects the basic ideas or structure
In a way that is a natural part of something
In a way that comes from the first form or beginning
How Fundamental
181
3.9
745
3.4
1
5.5
- Informal
∞
1.0
26
2.7
14
5.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Elementally comes from the word element, the same root as elementary, and originally meant a 'basic part' or one of the old natural forces like earth, air, fire and water. So, elementally means 'in a basic or essential way'.