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basic

• (a) 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
• (s) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality
  • a basic story line
  • a canonical syllable pattern
  canonic, canonical,
• (s) 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
  introductory,
• (s) of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base

Nouns

• (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
• (n) (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant staple,

Synonyms

canonic canonical staple introductory

Antonyms

incidental incident

Words of close approximity