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Princeton's WordNet

  1. genericallyadverb

    without a trademark or brand name

    "we market these drugs generically"

  2. genericallyadverb

    as sharing a common genus

    "these animals are not related generically"

Wiktionary

  1. genericallyadverb

    In a generic manner.

  2. genericallyadverb

    With regard to a genus.

    an animal generically distinct from another

  3. Etymology: Latin genus kind, class + -ficare (in compounds) to make. See -fy

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Genericallyadverb

    With regard to the genus, though not the species.

    Etymology: from generick.

    These have all the essential characters of sea-shells, and shew that they are of the very same specifick gravity with those to which they are so generically allied. John Woodward.

ChatGPT

  1. generically

    Generically means in a general or common way, without any distinguishing characteristics or specifics. It refers to something that is basic, universal, or applicable to a variety of situations or things without any unique or special features. It is often associated with things that are not brand-named or are broad in scope and application.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Genericallyadverb

    with regard to a genus, or an extensive class; as, an animal generically distinct from another, or two animals or plants generically allied

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of generically in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of generically in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of generically in a Sentence

  1. Jeffrey McCall:

    Some news accounts simply reference ‘the ransomware attack’ without a specific origin, or point the blame generically at ‘a criminal group in Russia,’ it is curious to see this coverage appear to downplay the Russian connection, particularly whether this cyberattack could have happened without nodding approval from the Russian government.

  2. Joe Biden:

    I've indicated to them that I thought they should be increasing oil production, generically -- not to Saudi Arabia particularly, and I think we're going to -- I hope we see them, in their own interest, concluding that makes sense to do.

  3. Mike Pompeo:

    Well, generically, when I hear the administration talk about taking America back, they are talking about back to what President Obama did for eight years where America was weak, we might have been liked -- a lot of people talk about how they are having this really fun time over at the G-7, everybody likes President Biden. What's important is not that they like America, but that they respect us, that we deliver good outcomes for the American people.

  4. Matthew Knight:

    We have tried to avoid putting it in one of those boxes and prefer to call it more generically an 'object,' in simple terms, asteroids are rocky and devoid of ices, while comets are a mixture of rock and ice, so-called 'dirty snowballs,'.

  5. Jonathan DeSimone:

    I would say generically that it's a fair fight between the two asset classes right now, on the primary side, there's probably a slight edge to loans. From a pure secondary to secondary standpoint, I think there is probably a slight edge to high-yield.

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