RUDIMENTARY

adj. 1 basic, essential, elementary, fundamental, rudimental, primary, introductory, abecedarian, formative, first, initial, elemental, primal, seminal The purpose of the course is provide students with a rudimentary knowledge of computer programming 2 crude, coarse, unshaped, unfinished, imperfect, primitive, undeveloped, vestigial, embryonic, primordial, immature These fish, which spend their lives in darkness, have only a rudimentary organ for an eye