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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Elementary \El'e*men"ta*ry\, adjective [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.
2. Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything; initial; rudimental; introductory; as, an elementary treatise.
3. Pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth, fire. ''Some luminous and fiery impressions in the elementary region.'' --J. Spencer.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
elementary
adjective
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: {simple}, {uncomplicated}, {unproblematic}]
2: of or being the essential or basic part; "an elementary need for love and nurturing" [syn: {primary}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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