generic

Main Entry:
generic [juh-ner-ik]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: common, general
Synonyms: all-encompassing, blanket, collective, comprehensive, inclusive, nonexclusive, sweeping, universal, wide
Antonyms: exclusive, individual, particular, specific
Main Entry: cognate
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: alike, associated
Synonyms: affiliated, agnate, akin, allied, analogous, comparable, connate, connatural, connected, consanguine, general, generic, incident, kindred, like, related, same, similar, universal
Notes: A doublet is one of two or more words derived ultimately from a single source: abbreviate/abridge, fragile/frail, guardian/warden. The doublets may or may not show much resemblance and they also vary in closeness of meaning. Somewhere along their line of development they diverge and go off in different paths. The term cognate is usually reserved for two or more words in different languages that share a common ancestor as English father, Latin Pater, Greek pater, Spanish and Italian padre, French pere, and German Vater.
Antonyms: disassociated, dissimilar, unalike, unallied, unconnected, unlike
Main Entry: common
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: generally known; held in common
Synonyms: accepted, coincident, collective, communal, communistic, community, commutual, congruous, conjoint, conjunct, constant, corporate, correspondent, customary, general, generic, in common, intermutual, joint, like, mutual, popular, prevailing, prevalent, public, reciprocal, shared, social, socialistic, united, universal, usual, well-known, widespread
Notes: mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead
Main Entry: general
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: common, accepted
Synonyms: accustomed, broad, commonplace, conventional, customary, everyday, extensive, familiar, generic, habitual, humdrum, inclusive, matter-of-course, natural, normal, ordinary, popular, prevailing, prevalent, public, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, typical, uneventful, universal, usual, wide, widespread, wonted
Antonyms: abnormal, exceptional, extraordinary, individual, novel, rare, unaccepted, uncommon, unique, unusual
Main Entry: general
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: comprehensive
Synonyms: across-the-board, all-around, all-embracing, all-inclusive, ample, blanket, broad, catholic, collective, comprehending, diffuse, ecumenical, encyclopedic, endless, extensive, far-reaching, generic, global, inclusive, indiscriminate, infinite, limitless, miscellaneous, overall, panoramic, sweeping, taken as a whole, total, ubiquitous, unconfined, universal, unlimited, wide, worldwide
Antonyms: circumscribed, limited
Main Entry: ordinary
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: average; not distinctive
Synonyms: characterless, common, commonplace, conventional, dull, fair, familiar, garden variety, garden*, generic, habitual, homespun, household, humble, indifferent, inferior, mean, mediocre, modest, no great shakes, normal, pedestrian, plain, plastic, prosaic, quotidian, routine, run-of-the-mill, second-rate, simple, so-so, stereotyped, undistinguished, uneventful, unexceptional, uninspired, unmemorable, unnoteworthy, unpretentious, unremarkable, usual, vanilla, white-bread, workaday
Antonyms: different, distinctive, remarkable, special
Main Entry: undistinguished
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ordinary
Synonyms: average, characterless, common, commonplace, dull, everyday, fair, garden-variety, generic, mean, mediocre, modest, no great shakes, normal, nothing special, nothing to write home about, pedestrian, plain, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill, second-rate, so-so, typical, uneventful, unexceptional, unexciting, uninspired, unmemorable, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, usual
Main Entry: universal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: worldwide, entire
Synonyms: accepted, all, all-embracing, all-inclusive, all-over, astronomical, broad, catholic, celestial, common, comprehensive, cosmic, cosmopolitan, customary, diffuse, ecumenical, empyrean, extensive, general, generic, global, multinational, mundane, omnipresent, planetary, prevalent, regular, stellar, sweeping, terrestrial, total, ubiquitous, undisputed, unlimited, unrestricted, usual, whole, widespread, worldly
Antonyms: confined, local, partial, particular
Main Entry: garden-variety
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ordinary
Synonyms: average, characterless, common, commonplace, conventional, cut-and-dried, dull, fair, familiar, formulaic, garden variety, garden*, generic, habitual, homespun, household, humble, indifferent, inferior, mean, mediocre, modest, no great shakes, normal, p
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