generic

About 8.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective 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.

2. adjective Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.
3. adjective Of a product or drug, not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class.
4. adjective Pertaining to genera of life instead of particular species thereof.

   There are scores of generic names within the order Decapoda, which includes many sea creatures that are called shrimp.

5. adjective Specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene; unisex.

   Words like salesperson and firefighter are generic.

6. adjective Of a procedure, written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
7. adjective Of a point, having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
8. adjective Relating to genre.

Similar words

general nonproprietary generalised general-purpose generally overall across-the-board comprehensive public definitive

Often followed by

name term and names sense terms or drugs character

Word family

generically genericness genericnesses generics