generic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
computing
engineering
geometry
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: From Middle French générique, from Latin genus (“genus, kind”) + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more generic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most generic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: generick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: generics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: generick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Very broad; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific instances.
pos: adj
examples: Capri pants can be a generic term for any cropped slim pants.
[…] 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.
gloss: Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a product or drug, not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Pertaining to genera of life instead of particular species thereof.
pos: adj
examples: Holonym: familial
Meronyms: infrasubspecific, infraspecific, subspecific, specific
There are scores of generic names within the order Decapoda, which includes many sea creatures that are called shrimp.
gloss: Specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene; unisex.
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
examples: Words like salesperson and firefighter are generic.
This included criticism of the generic use of man to include men and women.
gloss: Of a procedure, written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a point, having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to genre.
pos: adj
examples: Both [films] test formal and generic boundaries.
gloss: Having no distinguishing characteristics; unoriginal.
pos: adj
examples: That movie was so generic; it was such a bore!
gloss: A product sold under a generic name.
pos: noun
gloss: A wine that is a combination of several wines, or made from a combination of several grape varieties.
pos: noun
gloss: A term that specifies neither male nor female.
pos: noun
examples: […]a male-centered perspective[…]has resulted in false generics in everyday life[…]
gloss: The part of a toponym that identifies the feature's type.
pos: noun
examples: Where the generic of an English-language place name has been translated into French, it is essential to restore it to its original English form when translating the French document into English.
Synonyms: general
classic
indefinite
catholic
common
ecumenical
generic
nonsingular
nonspecific
universal
unparticular
unsingular
unspecific
Antonyms: specific
particular
concrete
non-generic
proprietary
branded
gendered
Related words: comprehensive
gender
genus
Derived words: 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 platformer
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
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