Definition of rudimentary in English:

rudimentary

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adjective

1Involving or limited to basic principles.
‘he received a rudimentary education’
- ‘A large proportion are children who have barely obtained rudimentary education and live in shacks without basic amenities.’
- ‘Field commanders were tethered to and limited by a very rudimentary logistics infrastructure.’
- ‘As a result of the mismatches, selection was made according to rudimentary principles.’
- ‘School inspectors' reports suggest that education was rudimentary.’
- ‘Health and education services are rudimentary or non-existent.’
- ‘Having been brought up in the small village of Snitterfield he is likely to have received only a rudimentary education, and seems not to have learned to write.’
- ‘Local priests were drawn largely from the peasant communities they served and were probably afforded only rudimentary education.’
- ‘His rudimentary education prompted Lumumba to appoint him as his secretary for the duration of the negotiations.’
- ‘He spoke no English until the age of 12 and received only a rudimentary education.’
- ‘With only a rudimentary education in Afrikaans they are denied access to a functional mastery of English.’
- ‘In remote areas, there are not even roads let alone rudimentary education and health facilities.’
- ‘They had few rights and a very rudimentary education, in some cases none if the money was not available to pay for it.’
- ‘The French built an infrastructure and created a rudimentary education system.’
- ‘The introduction is quite rudimentary, suitable for complete beginners to programming.’
- ‘Several hours earlier we had been given a rudimentary map, told how to switch the engine on or off and that was it.’
- ‘The majority lack access to the most rudimentary services - health, education, welfare and even roads.’
- ‘A rudimentary understanding of the inner-workings of cars is recommended but some beginners' classes start at square one.’
- ‘The two events got me thinking about Adam Smith because, in some rudimentary way, they relate to a question of supply and demand.’
- ‘Medical, education and public infrastructure is almost non-existent and what is there is rudimentary.’
- ‘One of my proudest achievements as an adult is having picked up a rudimentary understanding of test cricket.’
- ‘U.S. officials believe that a rudimentary missile defence system might be operational by 2005.’
basic, elementary, introductory, early, primary, initial, first
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1. 1.1Relating to an immature, undeveloped, or basic form.
  ‘a rudimentary stage of evolution’
  ‘The first digit, or dew claw, is rudimentary but clawed and does not contact the ground.’
  ‘It has one set of compound eyes like a fly's, one set of simple, rudimentary eyes, and multiple photoreceptors on its telson.’
  ‘They have small, rudimentary clavicles, a small procoracoid process, no syrinx, and reduced caeca.’
  ‘Even as embryos, we possess many anatomical features of our future adult bodies, albeit often in rudimentary form.’
  ‘Individuals have large broad heads with rudimentary eyes hidden under the skin.’
  ‘Still another unusual feature which appeared in some of the later sauropods was rudimentary body armor.’
  ‘In rare cases the first thoracic rib may be rudimentary and similar in appearance to cervical ribs.’
  ‘The rudimentary external genitalia are similarly common to male and female in the early weeks of fetal life.’
  ‘The imaginal discs now develop into rudimentary adult appendages like wings, legs, and antennae.’
  ‘The long bones of the limbs appeared as rudimentary ossicles.’
  ‘The anterior tibial may be absent, rudimentary, or highly developed.’
  ‘In the early seventies, aviation throwbacks would haul their rudimentary hang gliders up some remote hillock and leap off.’
  ‘Mallory had only rudimentary oxygen equipment, no radio, a basic cotton tent and hobnail boots.’
  ‘Although there is no substantive evidence of apes having a theory of mind, they may possess its precursor - a rudimentary self-awareness.’
  ‘They occur frequently in the mines, which often lack even rudimentary safety equipment such as ventilators to disperse the gas.’
  ‘When I first got into it, the visual language of television animation was very, very rudimentary.’
  ‘There is no evidence that primates have any, even rudimentary, human-like insight into the effect of their communications.’
  ‘Science has only a rudimentary internal moral navigation system.’
  ‘Occasionally babies are born without a thumb or with a rudimentary thumb.’
  ‘In his shabby Cologne apartment in 1973, Brinkmann used rudimentary means to improvise on a few scraps of paper.’
  primitive, crude, simple, unsophisticated, rough, rough and ready, makeshift, rude
  vestigial, undeveloped, incomplete, embryonic, immature
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