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adj. Of, relating to, or forming a base; fundamental: "Basic changes in public opinion often occur because of shifts in concerns and priorities” ( Atlantic).

adj. Of, being, or serving as a starting point or basis: a basic course in Russian; a set of basic woodworking tools.

adj. Chemistry Of or relating to a base.

adj. Chemistry Containing a base, especially in excess of acid.

adj. Chemistry Alkaline.

adj. Geology Containing little silica, as igneous rocks.

n. An essential, fundamental element or entity: the basics of math.

n. Basic training.

adj. necessary, essential for life or some process.

adj. elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.

adj. Of or pertaining to a base; antonym of acidic

n. A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.

n. An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.

n. basic training.

adj.

adj. Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.

adj. Having the base in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.

adj. Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.

adj. Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.

n. an artificial computer language with a relatively simplified instruction set.

Relating to a base; of the nature of a base; fundamental.

In chem.: Performing the office of a base in a salt. Having the base in excess; having more than one equivalent of the base for each equivalent of acid.

In geology, containing a relatively small amount of silica: applied to crystalline rocks, as basalt: opposed to acidic.

In anatomy, basal; basilar.

adj. reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality

adj. serving as a base or starting point

adj. pertaining to or constituting a base or basis

adj. of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base

n. (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant

n. a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use

"Nathaniel Kleitman gave the name "basic rest activity cycle" to the 90-minute period at night during which we move through the five stages of sleep."

standard    first    rudimentary    primary    base    underlying    elemental    basal    fundamental    radical   

trade good    commodity    good    programing language    programming language   

basic line    basic process    basic water    basic alum    basic blue    basic lining   

basically    BASIC   

fundamental    bare-bones   

diabasic   

specific    fundamental    additional    primary