generic
/dʒɪˈnɛɹ.ɪk/ adjective C1- 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.
- Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.
- Of a product or drug, not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class.
- Pertaining to genera of life instead of particular species thereof. · Holonym: familial· Meronyms: infrasubspecific, infraspecific, subspecific, specific
- Of a procedure, written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
- Of a point, having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
- Relating to genre.
- Having no distinguishing characteristics; unoriginal. · That movie was so generic; it was such a bore!
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