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basic

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)

adjective

  • 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"
  • 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"
  • Of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base. .
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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
rough

noun

  • The part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short.

verb

adjective

  • Having or caused by an irregular surface.
    • usage: "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"
  • Of persons or behavior. ( lacking refinement or finesse)
    • usage: "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"
  • Not quite exact or correct.
    • usage: "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate"
  • Full of hardship or trials.
    • usage: "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time"
  • Violently agitated and turbulent.
    • usage: "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas"
  • Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound.
    • usage: "a gravelly voice"
  • Ready and able to resort to force or violence.
    • usage: "pugnacious spirits... Lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men"
  • Of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped.
  • Causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements.
    • usage: "a rough ride"
  • Not shaped by cutting or trimming.
    • usage: "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones"
  • Not carefully or expertly made.
    • usage: "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"
  • Not perfected.
    • usage: "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches"
  • Unpleasantly stern.
    • usage: "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous"
  • Unkind or cruel or uncivil.
    • usage: "had harsh words"; "a harsh and unlovable old tyrant"; "a rough answer"

adverb

  • With roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly'. )
    • usage: "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated him rough"
  • With rough motion as over a rough surface.
    • usage: "ride rough"
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