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basic meaning

EN[ˈbeɪsɪk]
WBasic
  • Basic may refer to:
basic
  • NounPLbasicsPREbasi-SUF-ic
    1. A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
      1. Rice is a basic for many Asian villagers.
    2. An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
      1. Arithmetic is a basic for the study of mathematics.
    3. (military) Basic training.
    4. AdjectiveCOMmore basicSUPmost basic
      1. Necessary, essential for life or some process.
        1. Flour is a basic ingredient of bread.
      2. Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
        1. The Hotel Sparta’s accommodation is purely basic.
      3. (chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.
        1. SLA Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.
        2. More Examples
          1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
            • The athiest[sic] is destined to Hell fire in the Hereafter. This is because the athiest refuses the most basic belief which is the existance and oneness of Allaah.
            • I finally decided that the production was a work of neoromanticism, not only because I like a good ten-dollar word, but because the basic struggle here is between the young and the old.
            • I found that aunting, or the care and nurture of children by aunts and great-aunts, is gendered and invisible work that, at the most basic level, salvages children’s lives.
          2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
            • Basic table manners were covered in the first day of finishing school, but more followed.
          3. Used in the Ending of Sentence
            • Many programs were written for the Sinclair Spectrum computer in BASIC.

        Meaning of basic for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "basic" is an adjective. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
        • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
          1. Adjectives
            • Morphemes
              • Suffixes
                • Words by suffix
                  • Words suffixed with -ic
              • Nouns
                • Countable nouns
              Difficultness: Level 3
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              Definiteness: Level 8
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