English Explanatory Dictionary

basic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Necessary, essential for life or some process.
  2. Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
  3. Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.
  4. Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.
noun
  1. A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
  2. An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
  3. Basic training.
name
  1. Any of a family of third-generation programming languages.
name
  1. Initialism of Brazil, South Africa, India and China.
name
  1. Initialism of British American Security Information Council.
name
  1. A family of third-generation computer programming languages (c.1964 on).

Pronunciation

/ˈbeɪsɪk/ En-au-basic.ogg en-ca-BASIC.ogg

Word forms

basic more basic most basic basics

Etymology

From base + -ic.

Synonyms

indispensable needed basic essential necessar necessary prerequisite required requisite no-frills spartan austere bare bare-bones bargain cheap default discreet economy elemental elementary foundational fundamental incomplex light modest plain pure restrained rudimentary run-of-the-mill simple slimline standard stripped down stripped uncomplicated unembellished uninvolved unmodified unvarnished vanilla alkaline dull tedious bog-standard ordinary banal beat blah bland boring cold colourless corny drab stuffy dreich drowsy dull as dishwater

Antonyms

acidic

Related words

C C++ Cobol C plus plus FORTRAN

Derived words

abasic BASIC basical basically basic B basic balance basic belief basic bitch basic block basic bro basic cable basic ed basic education Basic English basic form basic ignition timing basic income basic insulation level basicity basic law basic needs basicness basic pay basic phone basic plumage basic process basic rate interface basic reproduction number basic reproduction rate basic reproduction ratio basic reproductive number basic reproductive rate basic reproductive ratio basic research basic science basic strategy basic timing bibasic dibasic extended basic block gnathobasic heptabasic hexabasic macrobasic mesobasic microbasic monobasic multibasic nonbasic octabasic oligobasic pentabasic polybasic postbasic prebasic quadribasic sesquibasic superbasic terbasic tetrabasic
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