elemental vs elementary

Definitions

adjective

1. of or being the essential or basic part
2. relating to severe atmospheric conditions
3. relating to or being an element

Examples

It is hard nowadays to get away with something so elemental.

Deeply embedded within her mind is a node of pure Elemental energy.

Football's most elemental rivalry was providing the defining classic of the genre.

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Definitions

adjective

1. of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education
2. of or being the essential or basic part
3. easy and not involved or complicated

Examples

It all starts when Chuck is asked to teach an after-school program in cartooning to elementary school kids†¦ and it isn†™ t long before he learns the kids can be more hyperactive than his doodles!

I was talking to a mom today whose daughter's elementary teacher said she was afraid that her daughter had "selective mutism.

Children enter elementary school at the age of five, don't they?

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