Basic

adjective

'beɪsɪk

Adjective

serving as a base or starting point
“a basic course in Russian”
“basic training for raw recruits”
“a set of basic tools”
Similar:Introductory
reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality
“a basic story line”
Similar:CanonicCanonical
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”
of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base

(usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
Similar:Staple
Type of:GoodCommodity
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