generic
/dʒɪˈnɛɹ.ɪk/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.11 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Very broad; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific instances.
adj
Of a product or drug, not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class.
adj
Pertaining to genera of life instead of particular species thereof.
adj
Of a procedure, written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
adj
Of a point, having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Having in mind Marx's conception of reason as a practical organ of collective existence, and of the object as something defined though not objectivized by reason, we may describe his epistemology as one of generic subjectivism."
- "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."
- "Holonym: familial"
- "Meronyms: infrasubspecific, infraspecific, subspecific, specific"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more generic (comparative)
most generic (superlative)
generick (alternative, obsolete)
generics (plural)