Basic and Lowly

basic

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)
- synonyms: staple

Pertaining to or constituting a base or basis.
- usage: "a basic fact"; "the basic ingredients"; "basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities"
Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality.
- usage: "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern"
- synonyms: canonic, canonical
Serving as a base or starting point.
- usage: "a basic course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of basic tools"; "an introductory art course"
- synonyms: introductory
Of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base. .

(a.) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
(a.) Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
(a.) Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
(a.) 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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Basic is a masculine given name

Name Meaning: Diminutive of Basil: Royal. Kingly. St Basil the Great was Bishop of Caesarea in the latter half of the 4th century. This name was introduced into Western Europe by the Crusaders. Derived from the same Greek word as the plant name basil
Name Origin: Greek

lowly

Low or inferior in station or quality.
- usage: "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
- synonyms: humble, low, modest, small
Inferior in rank or status.
- usage: "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
- synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, petty, secondary, subaltern
Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work.
- synonyms: humble, menial
Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense))
- usage: "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly. birth"
- synonyms: base, baseborn, humble

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary