generic

Meaning

Adj

1. Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups (genera) as opposed to specific instances.
2. Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups (genera) as opposed to specific instances.
3. lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise
4. not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class.
5. Relating to gender.
6. specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene; unisex.
7. Written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
8. Having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
9. Relating to genre.

Noun

1. A product sold under a generic name.
2. A wine that is a combination of several wines, or made from a combination of several grape varieties.
3. A term that specifies neither male nor female.

Synonyms

general

universal

general-purpose

generic wine

fish

🐟

tribal

kangaroo

🦘

racial

common

frog

🐸

all-purpose

girl

👧

interchangeable

joint

kin

man

👨

me-too

multipurpose

all-around

omnibus

overall

popular

prevailing

public

rife

single

snake

🐍

specific

widespread

Catholic

generic drug

general purpose

national

all-mains

nonproprietary

white label

generical

mutual

all-embracing

all-round

bird

🐦

broad

collateral

communal

concerted

frequent

generalized

generically

Hyphenated as

ge‧ner‧ic

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dʒɪˈnɛɹɪk/

Etymology

From Middle French générique, from Latin genus (“genus, kind”) + -ic; thus morphologically parallel with, and a doublet of, general.