elementary

Adj

1. Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
2. Very simple.
3. Relating to an elementary school.
4. Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.
5. Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.
6. Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.
7. Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.
8. Fundamental: serving as a building block for more complicated structures or processes.
9. Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.).
10. Straightforward, employing only basic techniques; not requiring substantial knowledge (of some particular domain, object, etc.).
11. (archaic) Sublunary; not celestial; belonging to the sublunary sphere, to which the four classical elements (earth, air, fire and water) were confined; composed of or pertaining to these four elements.

Noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of elementary school.
2. (countable) A supernatural being associated with the elements.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/(ˌ)ɛlɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹɪ/

Etymology

Cognate with French: élémentaire

In summary

From Middle English elementare, from Latin elementārius (“elementary”), from elementum (“one of the four elements of antiquity; fundamentals”) + -ārius (adjective-forming suffix). Cognate with French élémentaire. By surface analysis, element + -ary.

Synonyms

primary

basic

elemental

fundamental

simple

initial

rudimentary

first

1st

beginning

primer

abecedarian

at the beginning

uncomplicated

preliminary

unproblematic

essential

obvious

open-and-shut

plain

preparatory

primal

primordial

run-of-the-mill

simplified

soft

tentative

undemanding

underlying

vanilla

working

truistic

all-encompassing

basal

cardinal

constitutive

cushy

easy

facile

fiducial

grassroots

inchoate

initiative

introduction

lower

material

no-frills

Translations

élémentaire

elementare

elemental

elementar

στοιχειώδης

elementarny

elementar

primaire

elementair

podstawowy

básico

basit

rudimentar

grundlegend

seretayî

Sentences

He served as Professor of Elementary and Secondary Education .