Usually means: Basic, undeveloped, in an early stage.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word rudimentary:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. rudimentary: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rudimentary: Merriam-Webster
  3. rudimentary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rudimentary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rudimentary: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rudimentary: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rudimentary, rudimentary: Wordnik
  8. rudimentary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rudimentary: Wiktionary
  10. rudimentary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rudimentary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rudimentary: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. rudimentary: Dictionary.com
  14. rudimentary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Rudimentary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. rudimentary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. rudimentary: Rhymezone
  18. rudimentary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. rudimentary: FreeDictionary.org
  20. rudimentary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. rudimentary: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rudimentary: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rudimentary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. rudimentary: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Rudimentary: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. rudimentary: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Rudimentary: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  5. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rudimentary: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See rudimentarily as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or relating to one or more rudiments.
adjective:  Basic; minimal; with less than, or only the minimum, necessary.
noun:  (zoology, usually in the plural) One of the rudimentary mammae of boars.

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