based

Contents

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beɪst/
• Rhymes: -eɪst

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: based
• Homophone: baste

Adjective

based (comparative more based, superlative most based)

1. Founded on; having a basis; often used in combining forms.

   That was a soundly based argument.

2. (slang, of a person) Not caring what others think about his or her personality, style, or behavior; focused on maintaining individuality.
   • 2012, Duncan Cooper, "Based Scripture: The Full Transcript of Lil B’s Lecture at NYU", The Fader, 12 April 2012:

     You have to work as a human with empathy and love in your heart, staying positive and staying based and staying normal.

Hyponyms

founded on; having a basis

• acid-based
• car-based
• carbohydrate-based
• carrier-based
• cash-based
• catheter-based
• cell-based
• character-based
• chlorine-based
• church-based
• class-based
• community-based
• comparator-based
• component-based
• computer-based
• constraint-based
• content-based
• device-based

• dollar-based
• euro-based
• event-based
• evidence-based
• face-based
• family-based
• function-based
• game-based
• gold-based
• graphics-based
• ground-based
• image-based
• instance-based
• interest-based
• issue-based
• land-based
• LED-based
• microservice-based

• military-based
• moon-based
• mosque-based
• name-based
• network-based
• object-based
• photograph-based
• plant-based
• platform-based
• polymer-based
• priority-based
• protein-based
• prototype-based
• radio-based
• rail-based
• rebased
• requirements-based
• resource-based

• risk-based
• role-based
• rules-based
• school-based
• service-based
• signature-based
• space-based
• standards-based
• synagogue-based
• tag-based
• template-based
• text-based
• time-based
• urine-based
• water-based
• weather-based
• whiskey-based
• zero-based

founded on; having a basis (natural languages)

• Arabic-based
• Chinese-based

• English-based
• French-based

• German-based
• Italian-based

• Turkish-based

Translations

founded on

• Danish: baseret
• Dutch: gebaseerd (nl), onderbouwd (nl)
• Finnish: -pohjainen (fi), -varainen
• German: basiert (de)
• Greek: βασιζόμενος (el) (vasizómenos), -παγής (-pagís)

• Macedonian: основан (osnovan)
• Norwegian: baserat
• Portuguese: baseado (pt) m
• Swedish: baserad (sv)
• Turkish: tabanlı (tr), temelli (tr)

Verb

based

1. simple past tense and past participle of base
2. Being derived from (usually followed by on or upon).

   It's a new film based on a best-selling novel.

3. Having a base

   The ladder is based on the even sidewalk for stability.

4. Having a base of operations.

   The company is based in New York.

Translations

being derived from

• Danish: baseret
• Finnish: perustua (fi)

• Scottish Gaelic: stèidhichte
• Swedish: baseras (sv)

having a base

• Scottish Gaelic: stèidhichte

having a base of operations

• Scottish Gaelic: stèidhichte

Anagrams

• Abeds, adebs, beads, dBASE