generic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪˈnɛɹɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈdʒɛnərɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /dʒɪnəˈrɪk/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪk
Forms: form: more generic
form: most generic
form: generick
Etymology: From Middle French générique, from Latin genus (“genus, kind”) + -ic; thus morphologically parallel with, and a doublet of, general.
Senses: examples: text: Capri pants can be a generic term for any cropped slim pants.
text: […] the essence is that such self-describing poets describe what is in them, but not peculiar to them, – what is generic, not what is special and individual.
ref: 1864, Walter Bagehot, “Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English Poetry”, in The National Review, volume 19:
antonyms: specific
instantial
glosses: Very broad; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific instances.
glosses: Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.
examples: text: The four-and-one-half-day trial was centered on acts that neither she nor prosecutors dispute: On July 13, 2012, she drove her Lexus S.U.V. erratically after swallowing Zolpidem, a generic form of the sleep medication Ambien.
ref: 2014 February 28, Joseph Berger, “Fast Acquittal for Kennedy, Whose Name Put Prosecutors in Bind”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2022:
glosses: Not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class.
raw_tags: of a product or drug
examples: text: Holonym: familial
text: Meronyms: infrasubspecific, infraspecific, subspecific, specific
text: There are scores of generic names within the order Decapoda, which includes many sea creatures that are called shrimp.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Pertaining to genera of life instead of particular species thereof.
glosses: Relating to gender.
examples: text: Words like salesperson and firefighter are generic.
text: This included criticism of the generic use of man to include men and women.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene; unisex.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
raw_tags: of procedures
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
raw_tags: of a point
examples: text: Both [films] test formal and generic boundaries.
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 47:
glosses: Relating to genre.
examples: text: "That movie was so generic; it was so such a bore"
glosses: Having no distinguishing characteristics; unoriginal
Synonyms: sense: comprehensive
word: broad
word: general
word: classic
sense: lacking in precision
word: fuzzy
word: indefinite
word: vague
sense: lacking a brand
word: unbranded
word: catholic
word: ecumenical
word: generic
word: nonsingular
word: nonspecific
word: universal
word: unparticular
word: unsingular
word: unspecific
Derived terms: bigeneric
biogeneric
cogeneric
extrageneric
Generica
generically
generic class
generic element
generic epithet
generic function
genericide
generic interval
genericise
genericism
genericity
genericization
genericize
generic name
genericness
generic programming
generic property
generic term
generic they
generic top-level domain
generic type
generic you
generify
heterogeneric
infrageneric
intergeneric
intrageneric
monogeneric
multigeneric
nongeneric
nongenerically
nongenericness
polygeneric
pseudogeneric
quadrigeneric
semigeneric
subgeneric
supergeneric
suprageneric
trigeneric
unigeneric
Related terms: word: comprehensive