OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 5314

generic

/d͡ʒɪˈnɛɹɪk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
genérico
Very broad; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific instances.
Capri pants can be a generic term for any cropped slim pants.
[…] 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.
genérico
Of a product or drug, not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class.
The four-and-one-half-day trial was centered on acts that neither she nor prosecutors dispute: On July 13, 2012, she drove her Lexus S.U.V. erratically after swallowing Zolpidem, a…