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basic

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

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

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

serving as a base or starting point; "a basic course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of basic tools"; "an introductory art course"

pertaining to or constituting a base or basis; "a basic fact"; "the basic ingredients"; "basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities"

reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern"

Synonyms:

• ab ovo,
• aboriginal,
• acid,
• alkali,
• austere,
• bare,
• basal,
• basilar,
• bedrock,
• biochemical,
• bottom,
• capital,
• central,
• chaste,
• chemical,
• chemicobiological,
• chemicoengineering,
• chemicomineralogical,
• chemicophysical,
• chemurgic,
• chief,
• constituent,
• constitutive,
• copolymeric,
• copolymerous,
• crucial,
• dimeric,
• dimerous,
• electrochemical,
• element,
• elemental,
• elementary,
• embryonic,
• essential,
• focal,
• foundational,
• fundamental,
• generative,
• genetic,
• germinal,
• gut,
• heteromerous,
• homely,
• homespun,
• homogeneous,
• in embryo,
• in ovo,
• indispensable,
• indivisible,
• irreducible,
• isomerous,
• key,
• life-and-death,
• life-or-death,
• macrochemical,
• main,
• material,
• mere,
• metameric,
• monolithic,
• monomerous,
• nonacid,
• of a piece,
• of the essence,
• of vital importance,
• original,
• part and parcel,
• photochemical,
• physicochemical,
• phytochemical,
• plain,
• polymeric,
• pregnant,
• primal,
• primary,
• prime,
• primeval,
• primitive,
• primordial,
• principal,
• pristine,
• protogenic,
• pure,
• pure and simple,
• radical,
• radiochemical,
• root,
• rudiment,
• rudimentary,
• seminal,
• severe,
• simon-pure,
• simple,
• single,
• spare,
• stark,
• substantial,
• substantive,
• thermochemical,
• unadorned,
• uncluttered,
• underlying,
• undifferenced,
• undifferentiated,
• uniform,
• vital