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Rudimentary   /rˌudəmˈɛntəri/   Listen
Rudimentary

adjective
1.
Being or involving basic facts or principles.  Synonyms: fundamental, underlying.  "A fundamental incomatibility between them" , "These rudimentary truths" , "Underlying principles"
2.
Being in the earliest stages of development.
3.
Not fully developed in mature animals.  Synonym: vestigial.





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"Rudimentary" Quotes from Famous Books



... and well made. It was plainly a very tolerably respectable place; and Anthony began to think from its appearance that he had been admitted at the back door of some well-to-do house off Cheapside. The banisters were carved with some distinction; and there were the rudimentary elements of linen-pattern design on the panels that lined the opposite walls up to the height of the banisters. The woman went up and up, slowly, panting a little; at each landing she turned and glanced back to see that her companion was following: all the doors that they passed were ...
— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson
... no public-houses nor public amusements at this time, turkeys unknown and beef scarce. In fact a rudimentary Christmas festival of a holiday, not ...
— Some Reminiscences of old Victoria • Edgar Fawcett
... comforted his taste—which, it must be confessed, ran rather to the lower forms. For one of the higher types nimbly and sweetly to recommend itself unto his gentle senses, it had at least to retain certain rudimentary characteristics allying it to such "dragons of the prime" as toads and snakes. His scientific sympathies were distinctly reptilian; he loved nature's vulgarians and described himself as the Zola of zoology. His wife ...
— Stories by Modern American Authors • Julian Hawthorne
... all, there is a preliminary examination in the yard, so that an examiner is not called upon to risk life and limb—to say nothing of those of the public—before he is sure that the candidate has at least a rudimentary ...
— Scotland Yard - The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police • George Dilnot
... system: a complex amalgam of custom and statute, largely criminal law; rudimentary civil code in effect since 1 January 1987; new legal codes in effect since 1 January 1980; continuing efforts are being made to improve civil, administrative, criminal, ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency


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