basic

pertaining to or constituting a base or basis

• “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

• “a basic story line”
• “a canonical syllable pattern”

of primary importance

• “basic truths”

serving as a base or starting point

• “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

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