1 shared by, including or typical of a whole group of things; not SPECIFIC:
'Vine fruit' is the generic term for currants and raisins.
2 (of a product, especially a drug) not using the name of the company that made it:
generic brands * The doctor offered me a choice of a branded or a generic drug.
generically adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for generic is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is generic a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, generic is tagged as adjective.
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