WikiWord

English

basic

/ˈbeɪsɪk/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
  2. An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
  3. Basic training.
  4. Necessary, essential for life or some process.
  5. Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
  6. Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.
  7. Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.

Etymology / origin

No prose etymology has been added yet.

No ancestor words have been linked yet.

Related words

Descendant words

No descendant words have been linked yet.

Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
basic — meaning and etymology | WikiWord