generic

adjective

No English definition recorded for this entry.

Pronunciation: /dʒᵻˈnɛ.ɹɪk/ / /ˈdʒɛnᵊ.rɪk/ / /dʒᵻˈnɛ.rɪk/

Etymology: From Middle French générique, from Latin genus (“genus, kind”) + -ic.

Very broad; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific instances.
“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.”
Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.
Of a product or drug, not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class.
“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.”
Pertaining to genera of life instead of particular species thereof.
“Holonym: familial”
“Meronyms: infrasubspecific, infraspecific, subspecific, specific”
Specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene; unisex.
“Words like salesperson and firefighter are generic.”
“This included criticism of the generic use of man to include men and women.”
Of a procedure, written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
Of a point, having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
Relating to genre.
“Both [films] test formal and generic boundaries.”
Having no distinguishing characteristics; unoriginal.
“That movie was so generic; it was such a bore!”

Etymology: From Middle French générique, from Latin genus (“genus, kind”) + -ic.

A product sold under a generic name.
A wine that is a combination of several wines, or made from a combination of several grape varieties.
A term that specifies neither male nor female.
“[…]a male-centered perspective[…]has resulted in false generics in everyday life[…]”
The part of a toponym that identifies the feature's type.
“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.”