"basic" adjective 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" [ant: incidental (http://word.sc/incidental)] reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern" [syn: canonic (http://word.sc/canonic), canonical (http://word.sc/canonical)] of primary importance; "basic truths" [syn: basal (http://word.sc/basal), primary (http://word.sc/primary)] 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" [syn: introductory (http://word.sc/introductory)] of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base noun 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 (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant [syn: staple (http://word.sc/staple)] Source: http://www.word.sc/basic

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