Elemental Definition

ĕlə-mĕntl
adjective
Of any or all of the four elements.
Webster's New World
Basic and powerful; not subtle or refined; primal.
Hunger and sex are elemental drives.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to fundamentals; elementary.
American Heritage
Being an essential or basic part or parts.
Webster's New World
Of or like natural forces; characteristic of the physical universe.
Webster's New World
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noun
In certain occult systems, an inhabitant of one of the four elements, especially any of the beings described by Paracelsus as intermediate in corporeality between humans and spirits.
American Heritage
A basic principle; rudiment.
Webster's New World
(fantasy) A creature (usually a spirit) that is attuned with, or composed of, one of the classical elements: air, earth, fire and water. They sometimes have unique proper names and sometimes are referred to as Air, Earth, Fire, or Water.
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Other Word Forms of Elemental

Noun

Singular:
elemental
Plural:
elementals

Elemental Sentence Examples

  • This elemental fire is in itself a divine rational process, the harmony of which constitutes the law of the universe.

  • He was an admirer of Marx's learning and analytical power, but he would never submit to the tyrannical pedantry of Marx's school and stood up for an elemental awaking of revolutionary instincts.

  • Moreover, the soul approaches most nearly to perfection when it is least differentiated from elemental fire; it follows that "while we live our souls are dead within us, but when we die our souls are restored to life."

  • Thus the ghost of the hero or medicine man of a kin or tribe may be raised to divine rank, while again - the doctrine of spirits once developed, and spirits once allotted to the great elemental forces and phenomena of nature, sky, thunder, the sea, the forests - we have the beginnings of departmental deities, such as Agni, god of fire; Poseidon, god of the sea; Zeus, god of the sky - though in recent theories Zeus appears to be regarded as primarily the god of the oak tree, a spirit of vegetation.

  • The general conclusion is that many of the Greek deities were originally elemental, the elements being personified in accordance with the laws of savage imaginations.

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Words Starting With

EELELE

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