basic
IPA: bˈeɪsɪk
noun
- A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
- An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
- (military) Basic training.
- Any of a family of third-generation programming languages (c.1964 on).
- A family of third-generation computer programming languages (c.1964 on).
- (attributive) Initialism of Brazil, South Africa, India and China. [A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil. Capital: Brasília.]
- Initialism of British American Security Information Council.
adjective
- Necessary, essential for life or some process.
- Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
- (chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.
- (informal) Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.
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Examples of "basic" in Sentences
- The sections treat the basics.
- The basic format is complicated.
- The grammar is basically the same.
- Basically the article is the truth.
- Lebanon is basically a noncombatant.
- That's the basic idea of functionalism.
- It is basically the finale of the scene.
- Hunger is a main stimulant of the basic cry.
- This is basically most of the furry facts featured in the main show.
- The majority of SBHCs provide the basic tools of primary preventive care.
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