- 1
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.
- 2
Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.
- 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.
- 3
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.
- 4
Pertaining to genera of life instead of particular species thereof.
- Holonym: familial
- Meronyms: infrasubspecific, infraspecific, subspecific, specific
- 5
Specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene; unisex.nonstandard
- Words like salesperson and firefighter are generic.
- This included criticism of the generic use of man to include men and women.
- 6
Of a procedure, written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
- 7
Of a point, having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
- 8
Relating to genre.
- Both [films] test formal and generic boundaries.
- 9
Having no distinguishing characteristics; unoriginal.
- That movie was so generic; it was such a bore!
syn. general · classic · indefinite · catholic · common · ecumenical · generic · nonsingular · nonspecific · universal · unparticular · unsingular
ant. specific · particular · concrete · non-generic · proprietary · branded · gendered