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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

relating to the most fundamental or basic aspects of a subject;

e.g. I thought my elementary knowledge about physics would be enough to get me through the college class.

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Similar Words

Abecedarian

Basal

Basic

Beginning

Elemental

Essential

Essentially

Fundamental

Inchoative

Introductory

Life-and-death

Meat-and-potatoes

Rudimentary

Underlying

Unreconstructed

Unregenerate

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Opposite Words

Advanced

Arduous

Backbreaking

Challenging

Complex

Complicated

Convoluted

Demanding

Detailed

Developed

Difficult

Elaborate

Exacting

Extensive

Formidable

Grueling

Hard

Heavy

Hellacious

Herculean

High

Impenetrable

Incomprehensible

Intricate

Killer

Laborious

Moiling

Murderous

Refined

Rigorous

Rough

Rugged

Severe

Sophisticated

Stiff

Strenuous

Stressful

Sweaty

Tall

Testing

Toilsome

Tough

Unfathomable

Ungraspable

Unintelligible

Uphill

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Related Words

Beginning

Born

Budding

Congenital

Crucial

Important

Inceptive

Inchoate

Incipient

Introductory

Key

Nascent

Natural

Pivotal

Prefatory

Preliminary

Preparatory

Primal

Primary

Prime

Primeval

Primitive

Primordial

Rude

Simple

Uncomplicated

Vital

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