Dictionary Definition
basic adj
1 pertaining to or constituting a base or basis;
"a basic fact"; "the basic ingredients"; "basic changes in public
opinion occur because of changes in priorities" [ant: incidental]
2 reduced to the simplest and most significant
form possible without loss of generality; "a basic story line"; "a
canonical syllable pattern" [syn: canonic, canonical]
4 serving as a base or starting point; "a basic
course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of
basic tools"; "an introductory art course" [syn: introductory]
5 of or denoting or of the nature of or
containing a base
Noun
1 a popular programming language that is
relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose
symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use
2 (usually plural) a necessary commodity for
which demand is constant [syn: staple]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪsɪk
Noun
basic (plural: basics)- A necessary
commodity, a staple requirement.
- Rice is a basic for many Asian villagers.
- An elementary
building
block, e.g. a fundamental piece of
knowledge.
- Arithmetic is a basic for the study of mathematics.
Translations
A necessary commodity, a staple requirement
- Finnish: perustarve, elinehto
An elementary building block
Adjective
- necessary,
essential for life or
some process.
- Flour is a basic ingredient of bread.
- elementary,
simple, fundamental, merely
functional.
- The Hotel Sparta's accommodation is purely basic.
- Of or pertaining to a base; antonym of acidic
Translations
necessary, essential for life or some process
- Finnish: olennainen
elementary, simple, merely functional
- Chinese traditional/simplified: 基本的, 基本的 (jī běn)
- Finnish: vaatimaton, yksinkertainen, alkeellinen
- Italian: basico
- ttbc Portuguese: básico
Extensive Definition
Basic may be:
- BASIC, a computer programming language
- Basic (cigarette), a brand of cigarettes manufactured by the Altria Group (Philip Morris Company)
- Basic (dance move), the dance move that defines the character of a particular dance
- Basic (film), a 2003 film directed by John McTiernan and starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson
- Basic (album), a 1984 album by Robert Quine and Fred Maher (1996 on CD)
- Basic, one of the languages in Star Wars
- Basic Instinct, a 1992 film
- Basic Replay, a record label
- Basic access authentication in HTTP
- Basic English
- Igneous rock containing between 45–52% of silica
basic in German: Basic
basic in French: Basic
basic in Korean: 베이직 (동음이의)
basic in Italian: Basic
basic in Japanese: ベーシック
basic in Simple English: Basic
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
ab ovo, aboriginal, acid, alkali, austere, bare, basal, basilar, bedrock, biochemical, bottom, capital, central, chaste, chemical, chemicobiological,
chemicoengineering,
chemicomineralogical,
chemicophysical,
chemurgic, chief, constituent, constitutive, copolymeric, copolymerous, crucial, dimeric, dimerous, electrochemical,
element, elemental, elementary, embryonic, essential, focal, foundational, fundamental, generative, genetic, germinal, gut, heteromerous, homely, homespun, homogeneous, in embryo, in
ovo, indispensable, indivisible, irreducible, isomerous, key, life-and-death, life-or-death,
macrochemical,
main, material, mere, metameric, monolithic, monomerous, nonacid, of a piece, of the
essence, of vital importance, original, part and parcel,
photochemical,
physicochemical,
phytochemical,
plain, polymeric, pregnant, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primordial, principal, pristine, protogenic, pure, pure and simple, radical, radiochemical, root, rudiment, rudimentary, seminal, severe, simon-pure, simple, single, spare, stark, substantial, substantive, thermochemical, unadorned, uncluttered, underlying, undifferenced, undifferentiated,
uniform, vital