generick

Adjective

generic (comparative more generic, superlative most generic)

1. 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.

   Synonyms:

   broad

   Antonyms:

   specific, instantial

2. Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.
   • Having in mind Marx's conception of reason as a practical organ of collective existence, and of the object as something defined though not objectivized by reason, we may describe his epistemology as one of generic subjectivism.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in...

   Synonyms:

   fuzzy, unbranded

3. Of a product or drug, not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class.
   • The four-and-one-half-day trial was centered on acts that neither she nor prosecutors dispute: On July 13, 2012, she drove her Lexus S.U.V. erratically after swallowing Zolpidem, a generic form of the sleep medication Ambien.2014 February 28, Joseph Berger, “Fast Acquittal for Kennedy, Whose Name Put Prosecutors in Bind”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2022
4. Pertaining to genera of life instead of particular species thereof.
   • Holonym: familial
5. (nonstandard) Specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene; unisex.
   • Words like salesperson and firefighter are generic.
6. Of a procedure, written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.

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