general

1. (satellite adjective) prevailing among and common to the general public; "the general discontent"

2. (verb) command as a general; "We are generaled by an incompetent!"
Related Words: command

3. (satellite adjective) not specialized or limited to one class of things; "general studies"; "general knowledge"

4. (adjective) 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"
Antonyms: specific

5. (satellite adjective) of national scope; "a general election"

6. (adjective) (medicine) affecting the entire body; "a general anesthetic"; "general symptoms"
Antonyms: local

7. (satellite adjective) somewhat indefinite; "bearing a general resemblance to the original"; "a general description of the merchandise"

8. (noun) a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular); "he discussed the general but neglected the particular"
Related Words: fact
Antonyms: particular, specific

9. (noun) a general officer of the highest rank
Synonyms: full general
Related Words: Andrew Jackson, Antigonus, Antigonus Cyclops, Antony, Bolivar, Bragg, Braxton Bragg, Burgoyne, Caesar, Cromwell, Demetrius, Demetrius I, Demetrius Poliorcetes, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight David Eisenhower, Dwight Eisenhower, Eisenhower, El Libertador, Flaminius, Gaius Falminius, Gaius Julius Caesar, Garibaldi, George Washington, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Grant, Hannibal, Hasdrubal, Ike, Jackson, John Burgoyne, Julius Caesar, Lee, Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, Lysimachus, Marcus Antonius, Mark Antony, Monophthalmos, Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I, Old Hickory, Oliver Cromwell, Pompey, Pompey the Great, Publius Cornelius Scipio, Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major, Robert E Lee, Robert Edward Lee, Scipio, Scipio Africanus, Scipio Africanus Major, Scipio the Elder, Seleucus, Seleucus I, Seleucus I Nicator, Simon Bolivar, Sulla, Ulysses Grant, Ulysses S Grant, Washington, general officer

10. (satellite adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience"
Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, universal, worldwide



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