Usually means: Lacking complexity, common, or typical.
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We found 57 dictionaries that define the word basic:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. BASIC, basic: Merriam-Webster
  2. BASIC, basic, basic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. BASIC, basic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. basic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. BASIC, basic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Basic, basic: Wordnik
  7. BASIC, basic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. BASIC, Basic, basic: Wiktionary
  9. basic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. BASIC, basic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. basic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. BASIC: Dictionary.com
  13. BASIC, basic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. basic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. B.A.S.I.C. (album), BASIC, Basic (Brown Eyed Girls album), Basic (Glen Campbell album), Basic (Star Wars), Basic (chemistry), Basic (cigarette), Basic (computer language), Basic (dance move), Basic (film), Basic (programming language): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. basic: Rhymezone
  17. basic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. BASIC, Basic: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. basic: FreeDictionary.org
  20. basic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. BASIC: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Basic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  23. Basic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  24. basic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  25. basic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BASIC: Investopedia
  2. BASIC (programming language), Basic (computer language), basic: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. BASIC: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. BASIC, Basic: CCI Computer
  3. BASIC: Game Dictionary
  4. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  5. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  6. BASIC: Dictionary of Programming Languages
  7. BASIC: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  8. Webopedia (No longer online)
  9. BASIC (programming language), Basic (computer language), basic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. basic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. BASIC (programming language), BASIC, Basic (computer language), -basic: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BASIC: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. basic: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Basic: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  2. Mathematical Programming (No longer online)
  3. BASIC: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. basic: UNCChem Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. basic: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. BASIC: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Basic: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  2. "https://digitalfire.com/4sight/glossary/b.html">Basic: Ceramic Terminology Glossary
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Necessary, essential for life or some process.
adjective:  Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.
adjective:  (chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.
adjective:  (informal) Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.
noun:  A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
noun:  An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
noun:  (military) Basic training.
noun:  Any of a family of third-generation programming languages.
noun:  A family of third-generation computer programming languages (c.1964 on).
noun:  (attributive) Initialism of Brazil, South Africa, India and China. [A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil. Capital: Brasília.]
noun:  Initialism of British American Security Information Council.

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