adj, noun ·Common ·High school level
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"Incidentally, such beings may be said to have an existence of a sort upon the lower astral plane; they are elementals created by man's evil desires and unclean thoughts."
"Those who have escaped the dark and terrible aspects of life will find my brutality, my flash of rage in our final tragedy, easy enough to blame; for they know what is wrong as well as any, but not what is possible to tortured men. But those who have been under the shadow, who have gone down at last to elemental things, will have a wider charity."
"Seth is the embodiment of mother-right, warfare, terror, human sacrifice; he is an elemental deity who deals in the fundamental reality of blood."
"Elemental Indium is very soft for a metal."
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.
Common synonyms include: ab ovo, abecedarian, aboriginal, acid, additive, aerographic.
Elemental Indium is very soft for a metal.
Pronounced /(ˌ)ɛləˈmɛntəl/.
From Middle English elementall, from Medieval Latin elementālis; compare Old French elementel. By surface analysis, element + -al.