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Definition of Elemental |
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Elemental
Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary. Related Definitions: Air, And, As, Elemental, Elementary, First, Four, Material, Of, Or, Pertaining, Primary, Rudimentary, Supposed, The, To, World |
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Elemental Quotations
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. Albert Einstein Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. Saint Augustine I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way. Carl Sandburg Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. Karl Kraus The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. Stewart Udall Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level. Bill Griffith The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration. Hjalmar Branting Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral. Stefan Zweig When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. Henry Beston |
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Elemental Translations
elemental in Dutch is elementair elemental in German is elementar elemental in Italian is elementare, natura secondo elemental in Spanish is natural, elemenval, elemental |
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