basic
About 106.72 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Necessary, essential for life or some process.
Flour is a basic ingredient of bread.
- adjective Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
The Hotel Sparta’s accommodation is very basic.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.
- adjective Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.
- noun A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
Rice is a basic for many Asian villagers.
- noun An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
Arithmetic is a basic for the study of mathematics.
- noun Basic training.
The drill sergeants gave him hell in basic.
Similar words
essential first primary elementary fundamental basal introductory standard base beginning
Often followed by
books principles and needs to concepts research principle idea elements
Word family
BASIC BASICs basic english basicities basicity basics
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