rudimentary

Speech parts

1. rudimentary - Noun

2. rudimentary - Adjective

3. rudimentary - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to rudiments; consisting in first principles; elementary; initial; as, rudimental essays.

Very imperfectly developed; in an early stage of development; embryonic.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fundamental elementary primary simple initial basic underlying primitive rough incomplete crude introductory preparatory sketchy unsophisticated
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Antonyms

supreme high modern late developed leading
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Phrases with the word

rudimentary version rudimentary explosive rudimentary conditioning rudimentary training

Examples

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication. Alberto Manguel

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. Herbert Read

Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality. John Buchan

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility. Carl Sagan

Men learned to speak in order to understand one another. Cultural languages have lost the ability to help men to advance beyond the most rudimentary level and attain understanding. It seems that the time has come to learn to be silent once again. Fritz Mauthner

I had now to select that mode of the primitive which is distinctive of your own species, a mode characterized by repressed sexuality, excessive self-regard, and an intelligence which is both rudimentary and in bondage to unruly cravings. Olaf Stapledon

Close letter words and terms

rudimentally rudimentarily rudimentariness rudimentary conditioning rudimentary explosive rudimentary training