elemental
adjective
of the nature of an ultimate constituent; simple; uncompounded.
elementally
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a word derived from
elemental.
Example Sentences
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There is something elementally heavenly about the smell of alliums cooking in butter.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2025
To them, the Twitter that they know and love—this oppressive economy of arguments, invective, and nuclear takes that seems to leave everyone elementally dissatisfied after more than five minutes of exposure—is worth dying for.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2022
More celebrated plays have not exerted that kind of primal pull on me: Sometimes theater can be so elementally simple that it boils down to the basic enjoyment of a good yarn.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2022
Abroad and at home, populist movements end when the ideas that fueled them are absorbed into mainstream institutions or when the conditions that sparked their outburst are elementally altered.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2018
Briony was her last, and nothing between now and the grave would be as elementally important or pleasurable as the care of a child.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
