101adjective
uk/ˌwʌn.əʊˈwʌn/us/ˌwʌn.oʊˈwʌn/mainly US humorousshowing the most basic knowledge about a subject:
You should know how to boil an egg - that's cooking 101.
Helping people get to the polls is a basic lesson of politics 101.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Crude and basic
- at bottom idiom
- backward
- bare
- basic
- bottom
- crude
- elementary
- low-tech
- Mickey Mouse
- primal
- primordial
- rough
- rough and ready idiom
- rude
- simple
- skeletal
- stone-age
- two-dimensional
- vanilla
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