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rudimentary
Meaning: basic, undeveloped, or limited to first principles
rudimentary in a sentence
How rudimentary is used in real sentences:
The village clinic had only rudimentary equipment for treating serious injuries.
The early machine was rudimentary, but it established the design used by later models.
“In 1987, field assistant Mara Venn uncovered a thumb-length vertebra in a desert quarry, using rudimentary field tools and a hand-drawn grid.”
— from the passage The Bone That Would Not Settle
Synonyms for rudimentary
Other words for rudimentary — basic, elementary and primitive — carry the same meaning.
- basic
- elementary
- primitive
Antonyms of rudimentary
Words that mean the opposite of rudimentary:
- advanced
- developed
- sophisticated
Where it comes from
From Latin rudimentum, meaning 'first attempt or beginning.'
Memory hook
RUDIMENT means a first element: rudimentary skills are still at the beginning.
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