Rudimentary

Adjective
rudimentary


 * 1) of or related to one or more rudiments
 * I have only a rudimentary grasp of chemistry.
 * 1) Basic; minimal; with less than, or only the minimum, necessary.
 * His grasp of rudimentary English allowed him at least to do the shopping.
 * His rudimentary driving skills meant that he was a danger on the road.

Thesaurus
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

Translations

 * Chinese: 基本的，起初的；早期的，发展为完全的；退化的，残遗的. (jīběnde)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: rudimentær
 * Dutch: rudimentair
 * Finnish: alkeis-; perus-
 * French: rudimentaire
 * German:


 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: frumstæður, frumstæð , frumstætt ; vanþróaður , vanþróuð , vanþróað
 * Korean: 기본적인
 * Manx: bunneydagh
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Related terms

 * rudiment