generic C1 Topic:Business & Commerce US /dʒᵻˈnɛ.ɹɪk/ See IPA manual Freq #19907 Meanings 1 adj Shared by a whole group or class rather than specific to one thing. "Capri pants" is a generic term for any cropped slim trousers. 2 adj (Of a product or drug) sold without a brand name. The pharmacist offered me a cheaper generic version of the medicine. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 adj · shared by a whole group or... broad More catholicclassiccommonecumenicalgeneralindefinitenonsingularnonspecificuniversalunparticularunsingularunspecific ↔ Opposites brandedconcretegenderednon-genericparticularproprietaryspecific Word family Forms generics Derived forms bigenericbiogenericcogenericextragenericgenericagenericallygenericidegenericisegenericismgenericitygenericizationgenericize Related forms comprehensivegendergenus Common collocations generic term Adjective + noun Etymology AI details From Middle French générique, from Latin genus (“genus, kind”) + -ic; thus morphologically parallel with, and a doublet of, general. *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European genus Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Business & Commerce Word Formation & Derivatives External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # generic **Type:** Word **Level:** C1 **Part of speech:** adj **IPA (US):** /dʒᵻˈnɛ.ɹɪk/ **Frequency rank:** 19907 ## Meanings 1. Shared by a whole group or class rather than specific to one thing. 2. (Of a product or drug) sold without a brand name. ## Examples - "Capri pants" is a generic term for any cropped slim trousers. - The pharmacist offered me a cheaper generic version of the medicine. ## Synonyms - catholic - classic - common - ecumenical - general - indefinite - nonsingular - nonspecific - universal - unparticular - unsingular - unspecific ## Antonyms - branded - concrete - gendered - non-generic - particular - proprietary - specific ## Derived Forms - bigeneric - biogeneric - cogeneric - extrageneric - generica - generically - genericide - genericise - genericism - genericity - genericization - genericize ## Related Forms - comprehensive - gender - genus ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *ǵenh₁- - Root: genus ## Etymology From Middle French générique, from Latin genus (“genus, kind”) + -ic; thus morphologically parallel with, and a doublet of, general. ## AI Etymology Generic comes from Middle French générique, from Latin genus (“genus, kind”) + -ic; thus morphologically parallel with, and a doublet of, general. The historical chain includes *ǵenh₁- (Proto-Indo-European) and genus (Latin). The surrounding word family includes derived forms such as bigeneric, biogeneric, cogeneric, and extrageneric and related forms such as comprehensive, gender, and genus. In present use it covers shared by a whole group or class rather than specific to one thing and (Of a product or drug) sold without a brand name. ## Topics - Business & Commerce - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown