n. a general officer of the highest rank

adj. not specialized or limited to one class of things; "general studies"; "general knowledge"

adj. applying to all or most members of a category or group; "the general public"; "general assistance"; "a general rule"; "in general terms"; "comprehensible to the general reader"

adj. of national scope; "a general election"

adj. affecting the entire body; "a general anesthetic"; "general symptoms"

adj. "general knowledge"

adj. somewhat indefinite; "bearing a general resemblance to the original"; "a general description of the merchandise"

adj. of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience"

adj. commonly used or supplied; "standard procedure"; "standard car equipment"

adj. occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure; "grew the usual vegetables"; "the usual summer heat"; "came at the usual time"; "the child's usual bedtime"

adj. found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant

adj. approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall"

adj. in accord with regular practice or procedure; "took his regular morning walk"; "her regular bedtime"

adj. conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal; "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events"

adj. affecting the people or community as a whole; "community leaders"; "community interests"; "the public welfare"

adj. united or combined; "a joint session of Congress"; "joint owners"

adj. have in common; held or experienced in common; "two shared valence electrons forming a bond between adjacent nuclei"; "a shared interest in philately"

adj. encountered generally especially at the present time; "the prevailing opinion was that a trade war could be averted"; "the most prevalent religion in our area"; "speculation concerning the books author was rife"

adj. not clearly understood or expressed; "an obscure turn of phrase"; "an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit"-Anatole Broyard; "their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear"- P.A.Sorokin; "vague...forms of speech...have so long passed for mysteries of science"- John Locke

adj. not established beyond doubt; still undecided or unknown; "an uncertain future"; "a manuscript of uncertain origin"; "plans are still uncertain"; "changes of great if uncertain consequences"; "without further evidence his story must remain uncertain"

adj. offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance

adj. vague or not clearly defined or stated; "must you be so indefinite?"; "amorphous blots of color having vague and indefinite edges"; "he would not answer so indefinite a proposal"

adj. inconceivably extended in space or time

adj. applicable to an entire class or group; "is there a generic Asian mind?"

adj. having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap"

adj. commonly used or supplied; "standard procedure"; "standard car equipment"

adj. conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind; "windows of standard width"; "standard sizes"; "the standard fixtures"; "standard brands"; "standard operating procedure"

adj. ignoring distinctions; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction"

adj. involving only main features; "the overall pattern of his life"

adj. widely known and spoken of; "her proverbial lateness"; "the proverbial absentminded professor"; "your proverbial dizzy blonde"

adj. being present everywhere at once

adj. spreading or spread throughout; "armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor of garlic"; "an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion"

adj. widely circulated or diffused; "a widespread doctrine"; "widespread fear of nuclear war"

adj. characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity; "a monolithic society"; "a monolithic worldwide movement"

adj. (of investments) not distributed among a variety of securities

adj. including all or everything; "comprehensive coverage"; "a comprehensive history of the revolution"; "a comprehensive survey"; "a comprehensive education"

adj. not precise; "imprecise astronomical observations"; "the terms he used were imprecise and emotional"

adj. not marked by fine distinctions; "indiscriminate reading habits"; "an indiscriminate mixture of colors and styles"

adj. not specialized or modified for a particular purpose or function

adj. having national scope: "our central government"

adj. national; especially in reference to the government of the United States as distinct from that of its member units; "the Federal Bureau of Investigation"; "federal courts"; "the federal highway program"; "federal property"

adj. not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment; "the hedgehog is a primitive and generalized mammal"

adj. not precisely accurate; "an inexact quotation"

adj. broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"

adj. many-sided; "an all-around athlete"; "a well-rounded curriculum"

adj. omitting no one; from the door of one house to that of the next; "a door-to-door campaign"; "house-to-house coverage"

adj. broad in scope or content; "encyclopedic knowledge"

adj. broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"

adj. having broad power and range and scope; "taking the large view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy"

adj. providing for many things at once; "an omnibus law"

adj. full in all respects; "a plenary session of the legislature"; "a diplomat with plenary powers"

adj. existing in both space and time; having both spatial extension and temporal duration

adj. including more than a specified category; "a super experiment"

adj. covering or applying simultaneously to a number of similar items or elements or groups; "an umbrella organization"; "umbrella insurance coverage"

adj. (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique; "rules with specific application"; "demands specific to the job"; "a specific and detailed account of the accident"

adj. having a specific function or scope; "a special (or specific) role in the mission"

adj. separate and distinct from others of the same group or category; "interested in one particular artist"; "a man who wishes to make a particular woman fall in love with him"

adj. unique or specific to a person or thing or category; "the particular demands of the job"; "has a particular preference for Chinese art"; "a peculiar bond of sympathy between them"; "an expression peculiar to Canadians"; "rights peculiar to the rich"; "the special features of a computer"; "my own special chair"

adj. sharply exact or accurate or delimited; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment"

adj. not usual or common or ordinary; "a scene of unusual beauty"; "a man of unusual ability"; "cruel and unusual punishment"; "an unusual meteorite"

adj. deviating from or not conforming to type: "atypical behavior ... not the accepted type of response that we expect from children"- G. E. Gardner

adj. being or characteristic of a single thing or person; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways"

adj. affecting only a restricted part or area of the body; "local anesthesia"

adj. sharply exact or accurate or delimited; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment"