Adjective: elementary
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more elementary |
| Superlative | most elementary |
Sample Sentences
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It is clear, therefore, that idealism contradicts the most elementary scientific knowledge and is contrary to all progress, whether social or intellectual. [1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 453:]
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The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier. [2012 March 26, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:]
Adjectives inflected like elementary
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
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. See: Latin Adjectives '
elementārius', French Adjectives '
élémentaire'.
Verbs referencing "elementary"
Finnish Adjectives
elementaarinen.