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• generick (obsolete)

語源

From Middle French générique, from Latin genus (“genus, kind”) + -ic.

発音

• IPA: /dʒɪˈnɛɹ.ɪk/
• ハイフネーション: ge‧ner‧ic
• 韻: -ɛɹɪk

形容詞

generic (comparative more generic, superlative most generic)

1. Very broad; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific instances.

   Antonyms: specific, instantial

   Capri pants can be a generic term for any cropped slim pants.

   • 1864, Walter Bagehot, “Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English Poetry”, in The National Review, volume 19:

     […] 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.

2. Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.
   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 176:

     Having in mind Marx's conception of reason as a practical organ of collective existence, and of the object as something defined though not objectivized by reason, we may describe his epistemology as one of generic subjectivism.

3. (pharmacology) Of a product or drug, not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class.
   • 2014 February 28, Joseph Berger, “Fast Acquittal for Kennedy, Whose Name Put Prosecutors in Bind”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 August 2022:

     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 generic form of the sleep medication Ambien.

4. (taxonomy) Pertaining to genera of life instead of particular species thereof.

   Holonym: familial

   Meronyms: infrasubspecific, infraspecific, subspecific, specific

   There are scores of generic names within the order Decapoda, which includes many sea creatures that are called shrimp.

5. (grammar, nonstandard) Specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene; unisex.

   Words like salesperson and firefighter are generic.

   This included criticism of the generic use of man to include men and women.

6. (computing) Of a procedure, written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
7. (geometry) Of a point, having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
8. Relating to genre.
   • 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 47:

     Both [films] test formal and generic boundaries.

9. Having no distinguishing characteristics; unoriginal.

   That movie was so generic; it was such a bore!

同意語

• (comprehensive): broad, general, classic; see also Thesaurus:generic
• (lacking in precision): fuzzy, indefinite; see also Thesaurus:vague
• (lacking a brand): unbranded

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “comprehensive”): specific, particular, concrete; see also Thesaurus:specific
• (antonym(s) of “lacking a brand”): non-generic, proprietary, branded
• (antonym(s) of “neither masculine nor feminine”): gendered

派生語

名詞

generic (plural generics)

1. A product sold under a generic name.
2. A wine that is a combination of several wines, or made from a combination of several grape varieties.

   Synonym: blend

   Antonym: varietal

3. (grammar) A term that specifies neither male nor female.
   • 1998, Jacqueline A. Dienemann, Nursing administration: managing patient care:

     […] a male-centered perspective […] has resulted in false generics in everyday life […]

4. (toponymy) The part of a toponym that identifies the feature's type.

   Antonym: specific

   • 2024 July 29, “geographical names: translation”, in Writing Tips Plus‎, Ottawa: Translation Bureau, retrieved 9 November 2024:

     Where the generic of an English-language place name has been translated into French, it is essential to restore it to its original English form when translating the French document into English.

関連する語

• gender
• genus

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アナグラム

• energic