rudimentary

3 definitions found

rudimentary - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

rudimentary - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  rudimentary
      adj 1: 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]
      2: being in the earliest stages of development; "rudimentary
         plans"
      3: not fully developed in mature animals; "rudimentary wings"
         [syn: vestigial, rudimentary]

rudimentary - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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