basic

Necessary, essential for life or some process.

Flour is a basic ingredient of bread.

Đồng nghĩa: indispensable, needed, basic, essential, indispensable, necessar, necessary, needed, prerequisite, required, requisite

Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.

The Hotel Sparta’s accommodation is very basic.

Đồng nghĩa: no-frills, spartan, austere, bare, bare-bones, bargain, basic, cheap, default, discreet, economy, elemental, elementary, essential, foundational, fundamental, incomplex, light, modest, no-frills, plain, pure, restrained, rudimentary, run-of-the-mill, simple, slimline, spartan, standard, stripped down, stripped, uncomplicated, unembellished, uninvolved, unmodified, unvarnished, vanilla

(chemistry) Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7.

Đồng nghĩa: alkaline

(informal)Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool.

I'm not saying people are jealous of Hathaway because she is so perfect. Yes, she does have it all — husband, healthy career, good looks. But she doesn't do anything in an "awesome" way. She's basic.

"I couldn't get into it, I could barely understand what he's saying – it had too much cursing and explicit language," said Cortnee Brandon. "I think his lyrics are easy...he's basic. Kendrick Lamar is kind of overrated."

Đồng nghĩa: dull, tedious, bog-standard, ordinary, banal, basic, beat, blah, bland, boring, cold, colourless, corny, drab, stuffy, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull as dishwater, flat, heavy going, ho-hum, humdrum, insipid, lackluster, lame, languid, lifeless, longsome, monotonous, mundane, no fun at parties, plain, plodding, prosaic, prosy, pedantic, pedestrian, static, straightforward, snoozeworthy, soporific, tedious, uncool, wan, weaksauce, wooden, uninteresting, stodgy, vapid, vanilla, average, medial, basic, bog-standard, common, commonplace, common-and-garden, common-or-garden, congruent, consistent, conventional, customary, everyday, expected, garden variety, improminent, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, par for the course, plain, plain vanilla, quotidian, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard issue, typical, unexceptional, unremarkable, unstrange, usual, vulgar, wakeaday, workaday

A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.

Rice is a basic for many Asian villagers.

An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.

Arithmetic is a basic for the study of mathematics.

I know the basics of sailing and would love to learn more.

(military) Basic training.

The drill sergeants gave him hell in basic.