elementary

elementary
    adj 1: easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary
           problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a
           simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the
           problem" [syn: {elementary}, {simple}, {uncomplicated},
           {unproblematic}]
    2: of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or
       elementary education; "the elementary grades"; "elementary
       teachers"
    3: of or being the essential or basic part; "an elementary need
       for love and nurturing" [syn: {elementary}, {elemental},
       {primary}]
    

Elementary \El`e*men"ta*ry\, a. [L. elementarius: cf. F.
   ['e]l['e]mentaire.]
   1. Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting
      of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an
      elementary substance.
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   2. Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or
      first principles of anything; initial; rudimental;
      introductory; as, an elementary treatise.
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   3. Pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth,
      fire. "Some luminous and fiery impressions in the
      elementary region." --J. Spencer.
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134 Moby Thesaurus words for "elementary":
      ab ovo, abecedarian, aboriginal, acid, alkali, antenatal, austere,
      autochthonous, bare, basal, basic, basilar, beginning, biochemical,
      budding, central, chaste, chemical, chemicobiological,
      chemicoengineering, chemicomineralogical, chemicophysical,
      chemurgic, clear, component, constituent, constitutive,
      copolymeric, copolymerous, creative, crucial, dimeric, dimerous,
      easy, electrochemical, elemental, embryonic, essential, fetal,
      formative, foundational, fundamental, generative, genetic,
      germinal, gestatory, gut, heteromerous, homely, homespun,
      homogeneous, in embryo, in its infancy, in ovo, in the bud,
      inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular,
      indivisible, infant, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory,
      integral, integrant, introductory, inventive, irreducible,
      isomerous, macrochemical, material, mere, metameric, monolithic,
      monomerous, nascent, natal, nonacid, of a piece, of the essence,
      original, parturient, photochemical, physicochemical,
      phytochemical, plain, polymeric, postnatal, prefatory, pregnant,
      preliminary, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive,
      primogenial, primordial, pristine, procreative, protogenic, pure,
      pure and simple, radical, radiochemical, rude, rudimental,
      rudimentary, seminal, severe, simon-pure, simple, single, spare,
      stark, straightforward, substantial, substantive, thermochemical,
      unadorned, uncluttered, uncomplicated, underlying, understandable,
      undifferenced, undifferentiated, uniform, unsubtle, ur