'Rudimentary' definitions:
Definition of 'rudimentary'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Being or involving basic facts or principles; "the fundamental laws of the universe"; "a fundamental incomatibility between them"; "these rudimentary truths"; "underlying principles" [syn: fundamental, rudimentary, underlying]
adjective
Being in the earliest stages of development; "rudimentary plans"
adjective
Not fully developed in mature animals; "rudimentary wings" [syn: vestigial, rudimentary]
Definition of 'Rudimentary'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Biol.) Very imperfectly developed; in an early stage of development; embryonic. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rudimentary'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Lilliputian,
- 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,
- Tom Thumb,
- 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