Rudimentary

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rudimentary \Ru`di*men"ta*ry\, a. [Cf. F. rudimentaire.]
     1. Of or pertaining to rudiments; consisting in first
        principles; elementary; initial; as, rudimental essays.
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     2. (Biol.) Very imperfectly developed; in an early stage of


        development; embryonic.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rudimentary
       adj 1: being or involving basic facts or principles; "the
              fundamental laws of the universe"; "a fundamental
              incompatibility between them"; "these rudimentary
              truths"; "underlying principles" [syn: {fundamental},
              {underlying}]
       2: being in the earliest stages of development; "rudimentary
          plans"
       3: not fully developed in mature animals; "rudimentary wings"
          [syn: {vestigial}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  121 Moby Thesaurus words for "rudimentary":
     Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, abecedarian, aboriginal, antenatal,
     arrested, autochthonous, backward, basal, basic, basilar,
     beginning, budding, central, coarse, creative, crucial, crude,
     dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elemental, elementary, elfin,
     embryonic, essential, fetal, first, formative, foundational,
     fundamental, generative, genetic, germinal, gestatory, immature,
     imperfect, in embryo, in its infancy, in ovo, in the bud,
     in the rough, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative,
     incipient, incunabular, infant, infantile, initial, initiative,
     initiatory, introductory, inventive, meager, midget, nanoid,
     nascent, natal, original, oversimple, parturient, postnatal,
     pregnant, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive,
     primogenial, primordial, pristine, procreative, protogenic, pygmy,
     radical, reductionistic, reductive, rough, roughcast, roughhewn,
     rude, rudimental, runty, scraggy, scrubby, seminal, shriveled,
     shrunk, shrunken, simplistic, squat, stunted, unblown,
     uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, underdeveloped, underlying,
     undersize, undersized, undeveloped, unfashioned, unfinished,
     unformed, unhewn, unlabored, unlicked, unpolished, unprocessed,
     unrefined, unshaped, untreated, unworked, unwrought, ur, vestigial,
     wizened