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What is the adjective for generalise?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs general, generalize, genericise, genericize and generify which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

generic
  1. Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific.
  2. Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.
  3. (of a product or drug) Not having a brand name.
  4. (biology) Of or relating to a taxonomic genus.
  5. Relating to gender.
  6. (grammar) Specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene.
  7. (computing) (Of program code) Written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
  8. (point) Having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
  9. Synonyms:
      10. overall, general, universal, comprehensive, broad, common, blanket, sweeping, global, inclusive, umbrella, wide, collective, basic, nonspecific, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, nonexclusive, standard, all-inclusive, broad-brush, across-the-board, all-encompassing, non-specific, cross-disciplinary, all-purpose, complete, total, wholesale, widespread, indiscriminate, all-round, far-reaching, wide-ranging, all-embracing, extensive, thorough, mass, outright, worldwide, full, international, nationwide, countrywide, coast-to-coast, company-wide, across the board, panoramic, overarching, catholic … more
  10. Examples:
      11. “Look through the pictures and pigeonhole each one into a generic class.”
      “Another big challenge was to make sure that the quality of generic drugs matched that of branded medicines.”
general
  1. Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole etc.; as opposed to specific or particular. [from 13th c.]
  2. (sometimes postpositive) Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate supreme rank, in civil or military titles, and later in other terms; pre-eminent. [from 14th c.]
  3. Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual. [from 14th c.]
  4. Not limited in use or application; applicable to the whole or every member of a class or category. [from 14th c.]
  5. Giving or consisting of only the most important aspects of something, ignoring minor details; indefinite. [from 16th c.]
  6. Not limited to a specific class; miscellaneous, concerned with all branches of a given subject or area. [from 16th c.]
  7. Synonyms:
      8. usual, customary, prevailing, regular, conventional, ordinary, typical, accepted, common, everyday, familiar, habitual, normal, popular, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, traditional, confirmed, established, fixed, majority, overall, set, stock, accustomed, commonplace, natural, public, received, ruling, favorite, favourite, humdrum, uneventful, wonted, matter-of-course, time-honoured, well worn, average, expected, prevalent, orthodox, classic, characteristic, unexceptional, classical, settled, archetypal, garden-variety … more
  8. Examples:
      9. “It is the general practice in engineering and science that equations be plotted as lines and discrete data as symbols.”
      “The general opinion is that the benefits of the event outweigh the costs by a significant margin.”
      “Scott likes to spend his time philosophizing and thinking in broad, general terms.”
generalisable
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of generalizable.
  2. Examples:
      3. “The idea that new processes are guiding the location of economic activity does not, therefore, seem to be generalisable to all cities.”
      “This bias and subsequent lack of adequate 10 comparative recidivism rates offers limited generalisable results.”
      “Most benefits demonstrated for methadone detoxification and maintenance in the community are likely to be generalisable to prisons.”
generalised
  1. Alternative spelling of generalized
generalized
  1. Made more general, less specialized.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. vague, hazy, unspecified, general, nebulous, obscure, imprecise, loose, rough, sketchy, inexplicit, ill-defined, indistinct, blurred, unfocused, undetailed, impressionistic, uncertain, unclear, equivocal, indefinite, inexact, incomplete, approximate, indeterminate, confused, superficial, dubious, woolly, ambiguous, cursory, unknown, imperfect, fuzzy, ambivalent, doubtful, iffy, inadequate, obfuscatory, perfunctory, uninformative, indirect, wooly, muzzy, muddy, questionable, bewildering, unintelligible, amphibological, puzzling … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “These models are somewhat restricted in their direct physical application, though some generalized conclusions could be drawn from these results.”
      “One cannot legitimately make such generalized statements about any image's intrinsic dysfunctionality.”
generalizable
  1. Capable of being generalized.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. generalized, generalised, reducible, stereotypable, apparent, discernible, evident, observable, obvious, systemic, pervasive, widespread, global, sweeping, universal, broad based, unspecified … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “In other words, the process of induction involves drawing generalizable inferences out of observations.”
      “We examined only cervical biopsies in this study, and the results obtained may not be generalizable to other biopsy types.”
      “Mook has argued that in much behavioural science, obtaining generalizable results is not the primary research goal.”
generall
  1. Archaic spelling of general.
  2. Examples:
      3. “And because it is so, S. Peter in his first canonicall or generall epistle, forbiddeth that women should appeare, shew, and sett out themselues by theyr apparayle and neatnes.”
generick
  1. Obsolete form of generic.
genericized
  1. that has become generic.
generical
  1. generic
  2. Examples:
      3. “To this degree of oxygenation, we have afterwards, in the course of this work, given the generical name of oxyd.”
      “Watson is the fourth largest generical pharmaceutical manufacturer in the world.”
generalled
  1. simple past tense and past participle of general
generalling
  1. present participle of general
generalizing
  1. present participle of generalize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. simplifying, oversimplifying, overgeneralizing, universalizing, making a sweeping statement, taking a broad view, distorting, over reducing, making too simple, generalising, establishing, inducing, postulating, theorising, theorizing, concluding, deriving, discerning, hypothesising, hypothesizing, observing, philosophising, philosophizing, speculating, discovering, deducing, gathering, inferring, understanding, reasoning, judging, assuming, deciding, figuring, guessing, predicting, anticipating, foretelling, projecting, foreseeing, envisioning, extrapolating, drawing a conclusion, drawing conclusions, seeing ahead, making an educated guess, making out, supposing, surmising … more
genericised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of genericise
genericising
  1. present participle of genericise
genericizing
  1. present participle of genericize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. generifying
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