based
/beɪst/
based adjective: founded on; having a basis; often used in combining forms.
Adjective (1)
based (comparative more based, superlative most based)
- Founded on; having a basis; often used in combining forms.
- That was a soundly based argument.
- The company opted for a subscription-based business model.
Verb
based
Adjective (2)
based (comparative more based, superlative most based)
- Not caring what others think about one's personality, style, or behavior; focused on maintaining individuality.
- Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. […] Based is positive.2010 June 10, Lil B, Complex.com
- You have to work as a human with empathy and love in your heart, staying positive and staying based and staying normal.2012 April 12, Duncan Cooper, “Based Scripture: The Full Transcript of Lil B’s Lecture at NYU”, in The Fader
- Synonyms:
- maverick
- Admirable; praiseworthy, especially if simultaneously unpopular or controversial.
- I hate l'Académie Française, but their spelling reforms are kind of based.2023 August 9, human1011, Hot Takes on Languages! #linguistics
- I officially approve of North Korea. This is... this is incredibly based.2024 June 7, Eric Parker, Connecting North Korea's Windows XP Clone to the Internet
- Admirable for rejecting political correctness or socially progressive values.
- based and redpilled
- My last account got banned for being too based.
Interjection
- Indicating emphatic approval of a statement or opinion, often a controversial or unpopular one.
- —There is no ethics in communism.
—Based.
- Synonyms:
- damn straight, word, right on
- —There is no ethics in communism.
based meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
based in Tamil
- ஆதாரத்திலான, அடிப்படையிலான, சார்ந்த
based in Urdu
- based, founded
- مبنی mabnī
- based or founded
- مؤسسہ mu'assisah
based in Bengali
- উদিত
based in Malayalam
- based
- അധിഷ്ഠിത adhiṣṭhita
More languagesFewer languages
- based in Malay
- berdasar
Examples of based in a sentence
- Those who are against Trump are not based at all.2019, Kira Stalker, "The Fracturing of the Alt Right: Conflicting Online Discourses Of White Nationalist Communities", thesis submitted to...
- His [Brenton Tarrant's] meme-themed shooting greatly represents the spirit of the aussie people, in the sense of shitposting until their last moment, based and redpilled he is.2019, anonymous, quoted in Cathrine Thorleifsson, "From cyberfascism to terrorism: On 4chan/pol/ culture and the transnational production...
- That our beloved “Based Mom” once appeared at an event with Milo Yiannopoulos and didn't disavow him enough.2020, David Rubin, Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason, unnumbered page:
Synonyms of based
Antonyms
Forms of based
| comparative | more based |
|---|---|
| superlative | most based |
Origin of based
From base + -ed.
A reference to freebase cocaine, via basehead. Coined by American rapper from California Lil B in 2010 to describe his lifestyle.
Words formed from based
- basedness
- based on
- case-based reasoning
- competition-based learning
- context-based learning
- design-based learning
- evidence-based
- evidence-based medicine
- holy mother of based
- inquiry-based learning
- instance-based programming
- list-based programming
- model-based design
- model-based testing
- name-based type system
- outbased
- physically based animation
- project-based learning
- prototype-based scripting language
- rules-based order
- speech-based picking
- timestamp-based concurrency control
- holy based
Phrases with based
Words that rhyme with based
Questions about based
- What does based mean?
- Based means founded on; having a basis; often used in combining forms.
- What is based in Tamil?
- Based in Tamil is ஆதாரத்திலான, அடிப்படையிலான, சார்ந்த. See Based meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use based in a sentence?
- Those who are against Trump are not based at all.
- What part of speech is based?
- Based can be an adjective, a verb or an interjection.
- How do you pronounce based?
- Based is pronounced /beɪst/.
Words near based in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: based (page history and authors); based (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); مؤسسہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); based (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); അധിഷ്ഠിത (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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