generic meaning
EN
[dʒɪˈnɛɹɪk] [-ɛrɪk] 
US WGeneric
- Generic or generics may refer to:
- Generic mood, a grammatical mood used to make generalized statements like Snow is white
- Generic antecedents, referents in linguistic contexts, which are classes
- Generic role-playing game system, a framework that provides rule mechanics for any setting—world or environment or genre
- Generic drug, a drug identified by its chemical name rather than its brand name
- Genus, the generic name for classification of an organism in taxonomy
- NounPLgenericsSUF-ric
- AdjectiveCOMmore genericSUPmost generic
- Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific.
- "...the essence is that such self-describing poets describe what is in them, but not peculiar to them, – what is generic, not what is special and individual." — Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
- Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.
- (of a product or drug) Not having a brand name.
- (biology, not comparable) Of or relating to a taxonomic genus.
- (grammar) Specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene.
- Words like salesperson and firefighter are generic.
- (computing) (Of program code) Written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
- (geometry, of a point) Having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
- Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- As an application, we show that a family is Zariski equisingular if and only if it is Whitney equisingular and the numbers of cusps and double folds of a generic linear projection are constant on ..
- The New Jersey barrier became the most widely used and gave its name to the generic barrier type.
- But if your problem is waking too early, he might suggest a longer-duration drug like temazepam, the generic version of Restoril.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of generic in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Adjectives
- en generically
- en generical
- en generics
- en generich
- en generick
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "generic" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.