basic

basic is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
2. adjective. Having the base in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.
3. adjective. Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
4. adjective. Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
5. noun. (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant

   Synonyms: staple

6. 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
7. adjective. of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base
8. adjective. serving as a base or starting point

   "a basic course in Russian"

   "basic training for raw recruits"

   Synonyms: introductory

9. adjective. pertaining to or constituting a base or basis

   "a basic fact"

   "the basic ingredients"

10. adjective. reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality

    "a basic story line"

    "a canonical syllable pattern"

    Synonyms: canonic, canonical

Synonyms

staple, introductory, canonic, canonical

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in basic:

bacis

Common word forms

basics, basicity

Words from these letters

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