generic

(redirected from generically)
Also found in: Dictionary, Medical, Financial, Idioms, Encyclopedia.
Graphic Thesaurus  🔍
Display ON
Animation ON
Legend
Synonym
Antonym
Related
  • all
  • adj
  • noun

Synonyms for generic

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for generic

belonging or relating to the whole

The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Synonyms for generic

a wine that is a blend of several varieties of grapes with no one grape predominating

Synonyms

Related Words

any product that can be sold without a brand name

relating to or common to or descriptive of all members of a genus

(of drugs) not protected by trademark

Related Words

applicable to an entire class or group

Related Words

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
References in periodicals archive ?
Wham-O must be doing something right, because Hula Hoop, Slip N Slide and Superball are all instantly recognizable products whose names are probably used generically, too, when people are playing with knockoffs.
As for the teen actors who play Ian and Iza's kids, Julia Barretto does well, but JK Labajo is too nervous and 'generically troubled' as her errant younger brother.
Tivozanib delayed the progression of the disease in a 517-patient trial, but patients taking the drug did not live longer than those who took a rival treatment, Nexavar, known generically as sorafenib.
Actavis added that its rosuvastatin zinc alternate salt product had received tentative approval from the FDA in August 2011 but would not be generically substitutable for Crestor and would have required Actavis to convert patients from rosuvastatin calcium.
The company's new Guaifenesin 600mg Extended-Release tablets is the first product that is generically equivalent to Mucinex 600mg Extended Release tablets, an expectorant indicated to relieve chest congestion and make coughs more productive.
PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans rate the way President Barack Obama is handling the fiscal cliff talks much better than they rate the job congressional leaders -- whether identified by name or generically -- are doing on the same issue.
He said: "Rihanna is just generically cool and she can't help herself.
A Gallic rogue-cop thriller that's all meat-and-potatoes and little gravy, "R.I.F.--Recherche dans l'Interet des Families" is as generically entertaining as its standard gritty look.
Remarking on the title of her book, DiBattista (English and comparative literature, Princeton U.) says: "My title entails an obvious, but I hope not egregious pun, one meant to highlight the relation between what is `new' in the novel's emphasis on people and what is intrinsically or generically `novel' about the particular forms it invents to accommodate them." She proceeds chronologically beginning with Don Quixote and continuing through discussion of 19th- and 20th century fiction, mostly British.
The ANSI/ISA99 standards form the base documents for the IEC 62443 series of industrial automation (sometimes generically labelled "SCADA," or supervisory control and data acquisition) security standards.
It began as a local, folkloric affair, then tacked to become a generically international event.
Addressing a ceremony held to mark the launch of operation of the production line of interferon beta 1, generically known as Ziferon, Iranian Health Minister Marzieh Vahid Dastgerdi said that the move would make Iran independent of importing MS drugs.
Tamiflu, known generically as oseltamivir, comes as a pill made by Roche Ag under license from Gilead Sciences and is the most commonly used treatment.
For example, GlaxoSmithKline Plc's diabetes drug Avandia, known generically as rosiglitazone, has been shown to restore gut defenses through PPAR-gamma activation, he said, and Takeda Pharmaceutical's Actos, or pioglitazone, another PPAR drug
The electronic ticket, which is known generically as a "Smart Card", is a season ticket which can be swiped at station exit barriers to speed up passage.