Antonyms for elements

Grammar : Noun

Spell : el-uh-muh nt

Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛl ə mənt

Definition of elements

Origin : c.1300, "earth, air, fire, or water," from Old French element (10c.), from Latin elementem "rudiment, first principle, matter in its most basic form" (translating Greek stoikheion), origin unknown. Meaning "simplest component of a complex substance" is late 14c. Modern sense in chemistry is from 1813. Elements "atmospheric force" is 1550s.

noun essential feature
noun place where one feels comfortable

Example sentences :

It was a very serious thing for the elements when they got into Aunt Jane's diary.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

It is the one thing that has in it the elements of life, of a new life, Vita Nuova for me.
Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde

There were forebodings, also, of a more fearful tempest than those of the elements.
Extract from : « Old News » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The forest fairly rocked under the convulsion of the elements.
Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic

No mechanic has a set of customers so trustworthy as God and the elements.
Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier

It contains a course of applied geometry in connection with Euclid's Elements.
Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore

For just over a week we had been travelling in open water, and the elements had not been kind to us at all.
Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White

"We must clinch our victory, men," Hilary shouted above the roar of the elements.
Extract from : « Slaves of Mercury » by Nat Schachner

And the command he possessed over the elements of nature was no remedy for sensations like these.
Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin

Lydia,” said she, “is there anything ‘awe’-inspiring in this display of the elements?
Extract from : « An Encore » by Margaret Deland

Synonyms for elements

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