generic
Very broad; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific instances.
Example
“Capri pants can be a generic term for any cropped slim pants.”
Other meanings
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.
Related words
- genericity
- genericness
- generic you
- generic class
- generic element
- generic function
- generic interval
- generic epithet
- generic name
- generic programming
- generic property
- generic top-level domain
Word history
From Latin "genus" (genus, kind).
Where this comes from
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