elemental

The word “elemental” has 4 syllables: el-e-men-tal

It's pronounced as /ˌɛlɪˈmɛntəl/


What is synonym and antonym for elemental?

In the thesaurus, “elemental” has 28 synonyms and 14 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for elemental along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for elemental

  • abecedarian
  • basal
  • basic
  • beginning
  • constituent
  • crucial
  • crude
  • elementary
  • essential
  • fundamental
  • important
  • introductory
  • key
  • meat-and-potatoes
  • preliminary
  • preparatory
  • primal
  • primary
  • prime
  • primeval
  • primitive
  • primordial
  • rude
  • rudimental
  • rudimentary
  • simple
  • uncomplicated
  • underlying

Antonyms for elemental

Meanings of elemental

  • noun
    1. (theosophy) A creature (usually a spirit) that is attuned with, or composed of, one of the classical elements: air, earth, fire and water or variations of them like ice, lightning, etc. They sometimes have unique proper names and sometimes are referred to as Air, Earth, Fire, or Water.
  • adjective
    1. Of, relating to, or being an element (as opposed to a compound).
    2. Basic, fundamental or elementary.
    3. Of the ancient supposed elements of earth, air, fire and water.
    4. (by extension) Of, or relating to a force or nature, especially to severe atmospheric conditions.

Example Sentences

  • The elemental forces of nature can be both beautiful and destructive.
  • She had an elemental understanding of the world around her.
  • The elemental nature of the storm was evident in the fierce winds and torrential rain.
  • His artwork captured the elemental beauty of the natural world.
  • The story explored the elemental themes of love, loss, and survival.

On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to elemental, such as: abecedarian, advanced, basal, basic, beginning, complex, complicated.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

unadorned

  • antiseptic
  • au naturel
  • austere
  • bald
  • bare
  • bare-bones
  • basic
  • bleak
  • clean
  • conservative
  • denuded
  • divested
  • earthy
  • elemental
  • forthright
  • homely
  • honest
  • inconspicuous
  • minimalist
  • modest
  • muted
  • naked
  • natural
  • plain
  • plain-vanilla
  • quiet
  • restrained
  • severe
  • simple
  • sober
  • spartan
  • stark
  • stripped
  • stripped-down
  • subdued
  • undecorated
  • understated
  • unembellished
  • unobtrusive
  • unornamented
  • unpretentious
  • unsophisticated
  • unvarnished

ultimate

  • absolute
  • aftermost
  • basic
  • best
  • biggest
  • bottommost
  • capping
  • categorical
  • chips down
  • closing
  • concluding
  • conclusive
  • consequent
  • consummate
  • consummation
  • crowning
  • decisive
  • definitive
  • depth
  • elemental
  • empyreal
  • empyrean
  • end
  • endmost
  • ensuing
  • epitome
  • eventual
  • extreme
  • extremity
  • farthermost
  • farthest
  • final
  • final curtain
  • following
  • furthermost
  • furthest
  • height
  • highest
  • hindmost
  • hugest
  • incomparable
  • lag
  • largest
  • last
  • latest
  • latter
  • lattermost
  • limit
  • lowermost
  • lowest
  • max
  • maxi
  • maximum
  • most
  • most distant
  • nethermost
  • nth
  • outermost
  • outmost
  • outside
  • paramount
  • penultimate
  • preeminent
  • primary
  • quintessence
  • radical
  • rearmost
  • remotest
  • significant
  • sternmost
  • sublime
  • succeeding
  • superlative
  • supreme
  • surpassing
  • terminal
  • terminating
  • the most
  • top
  • topmost
  • towering
  • transcendent
  • transcendental
  • unequalable
  • unequaled
  • unequalled
  • unmatchable
  • unmatched
  • unparalleled
  • unrivaled
  • unrivalled
  • unsurpassable
  • unsurpassed
  • upmost
  • uppermost
  • utmost
  • uttermost

qualifying

  • accrediting
  • accustoming
  • adapting
  • adjusting
  • affirming
  • allowing
  • altering
  • approving
  • authorizing
  • basic
  • bracketed
  • by the way
  • certificating
  • certifying
  • chartering
  • clearing
  • coloring
  • commissioning
  • compensating
  • compensatory
  • conditioning
  • condoning
  • confirming
  • credentialing
  • credentialling
  • diminishing
  • distorting
  • educating
  • elemental
  • elementary
  • empowering
  • enabling
  • endorsing
  • enfranchising
  • entitling
  • episodic
  • equipping
  • explanatory
  • exploratory
  • extenuating
  • extenuatory
  • extraneous
  • extrinsic
  • first
  • fitting
  • fundamental
  • grooming
  • habituating
  • in parenthesis
  • inaugurating
  • incidental
  • indoctrinating
  • indorsing
  • inducting
  • inductive
  • initiating
  • initiatory
  • inserted
  • installing
  • instating
  • instructing
  • intermediate
  • interposed
  • introductory
  • investing
  • justifying
  • legitimizing
  • lessening
  • letting
  • licencing
  • licensing
  • misrepresenting
  • misstating
  • mitigating
  • moderating
  • modifying
  • narrowing
  • okaying
  • opening
  • palliating
  • permitting
  • perverting
  • pilot
  • preceding
  • precursory
  • prefatory
  • preparation
  • preparatory
  • preparing
  • primal
  • primary
  • prior
  • privileging
  • ratifying
  • reaccrediting
  • readying
  • reapproving
  • recertifying
  • rechartering
  • redemptive
  • reducing
  • related
  • revalidating
  • sanctioning
  • sanitizing
  • saving
  • schooling
  • seasoning
  • shaping
  • softening
  • subordinate
  • swearing in
  • tailoring
  • teaching
  • test
  • training
  • trial
  • tutoring
  • twisting
  • validating
  • varnishing
  • vesting
  • warping
  • warranting
  • whitewashing

ABCs

  • ABCs
  • Bible
  • abecedarian
  • accessory
  • accidence
  • account
  • acknowledgment
  • affidavit
  • affirmation
  • allegation
  • alphabet
  • amount
  • annal
  • announcement
  • article
  • articulation
  • aside
  • asseveration
  • assurance
  • authority
  • averment
  • avowal
  • axiom
  • background
  • bare bones
  • basal
  • base
  • basic
  • basics
  • basis
  • beacon
  • bed
  • bedrock
  • beginning
  • beginnings
  • belief
  • bellwether
  • blow-by-blow
  • body
  • bottom
  • bottom line
  • brass tacks
  • brief
  • bulletin
  • burden
  • canon
  • cap
  • capital
  • case
  • catalog
  • center
  • chapter and verse
  • character
  • characterization
  • characters
  • charge
  • chronicle
  • circumstance
  • circumstantiality
  • clear
  • clue
  • coal-and-ice
  • comment
  • communication
  • compendium
  • component
  • condition
  • confession
  • constituent
  • core
  • cornerstone
  • corpus
  • count
  • crux
  • cue
  • declaration
  • definition
  • delineation
  • depiction
  • description
  • design
  • detail
  • dictum
  • directory
  • doctrine
  • dogma
  • dope
  • drift
  • duck soup
  • easy
  • effect
  • ejaculation
  • element
  • elemental
  • elements
  • enchiridion
  • essence
  • essential
  • essentiality
  • essentials
  • explanation
  • explication
  • facile
  • fact
  • factor
  • facts of life
  • faith
  • feature
  • fine point
  • fingerprint
  • fire and ice
  • first principles
  • first steps
  • focus
  • foot
  • footing
  • foundation
  • foundational
  • fraction
  • fundamental
  • fundamentals
  • fundaments
  • general meaning
  • gist
  • gospel
  • grammar
  • graphic representation
  • gravamen
  • groceries
  • ground
  • groundwork
  • guidebook
  • guiding light
  • guts
  • handbook
  • heart
  • hieroglyphs
  • history
  • hot lead
  • ideograph
  • import
  • information
  • infrastructure
  • initial
  • innards
  • introductory
  • item
  • justification
  • kernel
  • key
  • keystone
  • know
  • landmark
  • law
  • linguistics
  • lodestar
  • lowdown
  • majuscule
  • make
  • manifesto
  • manual
  • mark
  • marker
  • marrow
  • mass
  • matter
  • meat
  • meat and potatoes
  • mention
  • minor point
  • minuscule
  • minutia
  • monograph
  • morphemes
  • morphology
  • must
  • name of the game
  • narration
  • narrative
  • nicety
  • nitty-gritty
  • nub
  • nuts and bolts
  • observation
  • origin
  • original
  • part
  • part and parcel
  • particular
  • peculiarity
  • philosophy
  • phonemes
  • pictograph
  • picture
  • pith
  • plain
  • plan
  • play by play
  • point
  • pointer
  • portion
  • portraiture
  • portrayal
  • precept
  • precondition
  • prefatory
  • preliminaries
  • preliminary
  • preparation
  • prerequisite
  • presentation
  • presentment
  • primary
  • primitive
  • primo
  • principium
  • principle
  • principles
  • print
  • proclamation
  • profession
  • prop
  • protestation
  • purport
  • quintessence
  • rationale
  • reason
  • recital
  • recitation
  • record
  • recountal
  • rehearsal
  • relation
  • remark
  • report
  • representation
  • requirement
  • requisite
  • respect
  • rock bottom
  • root
  • rudiment
  • rudimentary
  • rudiments
  • rule
  • run down
  • rundown
  • rune
  • schedule
  • scoop
  • score
  • sense
  • sentence structure
  • setup
  • sign
  • signal
  • significance
  • signpost
  • signs
  • simplest
  • simplex
  • simplified
  • sine qua non
  • singularity
  • sketch
  • small letter
  • soul
  • speciality
  • specialty
  • specific
  • specification
  • standard
  • staple
  • statement
  • stay
  • story
  • straightforward
  • stratification
  • strength
  • structure
  • stuff
  • subject
  • substance
  • substratal
  • substratum
  • substructure
  • sum total
  • summarization
  • summary
  • support
  • syllabary
  • symbols
  • syntax
  • tab
  • tagmemics
  • take
  • tale
  • technicality
  • telltale
  • tenet
  • tenor
  • testimony
  • the book
  • the numbers
  • the picture
  • the whole picture
  • theme
  • theorem
  • thing
  • thrust
  • tip-off
  • trait
  • trivia
  • triviality
  • type
  • uncial
  • uncomplex
  • uncomplicated
  • underlying
  • underpinning
  • understructure
  • upshot
  • utterance
  • vade mecum
  • ventilation
  • verbalization
  • version
  • vignette
  • virtuality
  • vital part
  • vocalization
  • voice
  • way of it
  • whole story
  • word
  • writeup
  • yarn

elementary

  • ABCs
  • abecedarian
  • basal
  • basic
  • beginning
  • clear
  • crucial
  • crude
  • duck soup
  • easy
  • elemental
  • essential
  • facile
  • foundational
  • fundamental
  • important
  • initial
  • introductory
  • key
  • meat and potatoes
  • meat-and-potatoes
  • original
  • plain
  • prefatory
  • preliminary
  • preparatory
  • primal
  • primary
  • prime
  • primeval
  • primitive
  • primo
  • primordial
  • rude
  • rudimental
  • rudimentary
  • simple
  • simplest
  • simplex
  • simplified
  • straightforward
  • substratal
  • uncomplex
  • uncomplicated
  • underlying

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