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/ˌɛləmˈɛntri/ /ˌɛləmˈɛntərri/ /ˌɛləmˈɛntʃri/ Listen

Elementary

adjective

Easy and not involved or complicated. Synonyms: simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic. "Elementary, my dear Watson" , "A simple game" , "Found an uncomplicated solution to the problem"

Of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education. "Elementary teachers"

Of or being the essential or basic part. Synonyms: elemental, primary.

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... take the more simple interpretation, seem to prove her to have been originally an agricultural deity, the creation of which would have been natural enough to the agricultural Pelasgi;—while her supposed invention of some of the simplest and most elementary arts are sufficiently congenial to the notions of an unpolished and infant era of society. Nor at a long subsequent period is there much resemblance between the formal and elderly goddess of Daedalian sculpture and the glorious and august Glaucopis ...

— Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... but did she realise that wood, blankets, linen and food were not things which could be transported with the quickness that those responsible heartily desired? Did she remember that the British troops also had to do without the most elementary comforts, in spite of all the things which were constantly being sent from home for the benefit of the field forces? Both had in South Africa two enemies in common that could not be subdued—distance and difficulty of ...

— Cecil Rhodes - Man and Empire-Maker • Princess Catherine Radziwill

... be small, flabby, deficient in strength or so thin as to be almost imperceptible but they are always there—elementary in the infant, full grown in the adult and remnants in the aged. But they are so smoothly fitted together, so closely knitted and usually so well covered that we seldom realize their ...

— How to Analyze People on Sight - Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types • Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict

... the Lives of the Poets to which the name of Cibber is affixed[548]; Mr. Stewart, son of Mr. George Stewart, bookseller at Edinburgh; and a Mr. Maitland. The sixth of these humble assistants was Mr. Peyton, who, I believe, taught French, and published some elementary tracts. ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... English gentleman and the English boor. The boor, of course, is the multitude; the boor impresses himself upon the traveller. When relieved from his presence, one can be just to him; one can remember that his virtues—though elementary, and strictly in need of direction—are the same, to a great extent, as those of the well-bred man. He does not represent—though seeming to do so—a nation apart. To understand this multitude, you must get below its insufferable manners, and learn that very fine civic qualities can consist ...

— The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft • George Gissing

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