# based
## English

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### Pronunciation

* IPA: /beɪst/
* Rhymes: -eɪst
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: based
* Homophone: baste

### Etymology 1

From base +‎ -ed.

#### Adjective

based (comparative more based, superlative most based)
* Founded on; having a basis; often used in combining forms.
    That was a soundly based argument.

##### Hyponyms

* biobased
* bio-based
* broad-based
* carbon-based
* character-based
* class-based
* coal-based
* computer-based
* computerbased
* e-based
* event-based
* faith-based
* geobased
* landbased
* magnetism-based interaction capture
* merit-based
* need-based
* object-based
* paper-based
* plant-based
* prototype-based
* rail-based
* rangebased
* reality-based
* rebased
* role-based
* rule-based
* sea-based
* silicon-based
* space-based
* spacebased
* stack-based
* text-based
* textbased
* tick-based
* tilebased
* time-based
* turn-based
* vegetable-based
* water-based
* waterbased
* webbased
* zero-based

##### Derived terms

* basedness
* based on
* case-based reasoning
* competition-based learning
* context-based learning
* design-based learning
* evidence-based
* evidence-based medicine
* holy mother of based
* inquiry-based learning
* model-based design
* model-based testing
* name-based type system
* outbased
* project-based learning
* prototype-based scripting language
* rules-based order
* timestamp-based concurrency control

##### Translations
#### Verb

based
* simple past and past participle of base
** Being derived from (usually followed by on or upon).
    It's a new film based on a best-selling novel.
** Having a base.
    The ladder is based on the even sidewalk for stability.
** Having a base of operations.
    The company is based in New York.

### Etymology 2

A reference to freebase cocaine, via basehead. Coined by American rapper from California Lil B to describe his lifestyle.

#### Adjective

based (comparative more based, superlative most based)
* (slang, of a person) Not caring what others think about one's personality, style, or behavior; focused on maintaining individuality.
    Synonym: maverick
** 2010 June 10, Lil B, Complex.com‎:Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. […] Based is positive.
** 2012 April 12, Duncan Cooper, “Based Scripture: The Full Transcript of Lil B’s Lecture at NYU”, in The Fader:You have to work as a human with empathy and love in your heart, staying positive and staying based and staying normal.
* (Internet slang, sometimes humorous) Admirable; praiseworthy, especially if the thing that is considered "praiseworthy" is unpopular or controversial.
** 2023 August 9, human1011, Hot Takes on Languages! #linguistics:I hate l'Académie Française, but their spelling reforms are kind of based.
** 2024 June 7, Eric Parker, Connecting North Korea's Windows XP Clone to the Internet:I officially approve of North Korea. This is... this is incredibly based.
    Antonyms: cringe, unbased
    OP is based as hell
** (Internet slang, originally 4chan) Admirable for rejecting political correctness or socially progressive values.
    Synonym: unwoke
    based and redpilled
    My last account got banned for being too based.
*** 2019, Kira Stalker, "The Fracturing of the Alt Right: Conflicting Online Discourses Of White Nationalist Communities", thesis submitted to George Mason University, page 139:
    Those who are against Trump are not based at all. On February 16th, The Donald users comment on a “based” post in r/DankMemes which uses a classic Squidward sleeping meme to criticize those who are upset by Chris Pratt going to “church” (one which was purportedly anti-LGBT) but “ok” with sex predators in Hollywood: […]
*** 2019, anonymous, quoted in Cathrine Thorleifsson, "From cyberfascism to terrorism: On 4chan/pol/ culture and the transnational production of memetic violence", Nations and Nationalism, Volume 28, Issue 1, page 293:
    His [Brenton Tarrant's] meme-themed shooting greatly represents the spirit of the aussie people, in the sense of shitposting until their last moment, based and redpilled he is.
*** 2020, David Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason, unnumbered page:Then, in the same month, noted feminist Christina Hoff Sommers was branded “white supremacy-adjacent” by feminist Roxane Gay. Her reasoning? That our beloved “Based Mom” once appeared at an event with Milo Yiannopoulos and didn't disavow him enough.

##### Derived terms

* holy based

##### Usage notes

* Formerly associated primarily with the alt-right, but now used more widely.

##### Translations
#### Interjection

based
* (Internet slang, sometimes humorous) Indicating emphatic approval of a statement or opinion, often a controversial or unpopular one.
    Synonyms: damn straight, word, right on
    —There is no ethics in communism—Based.

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* adebs, dBASE, beads, Abeds, Bedas