basical

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English

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Etymology

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Back-formation from basically. Equivalent to basic +‎ -al.

Adjective

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basical (comparative more basical, superlative most basical)

  1. (non-native speakers' English) Basic.
    • 1998 November 26, Alan Yu, “Who has secretly deprived regular citizens' basical rights”, in alt.law-enforcement[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-25:
      The corrupted LEO have secretly deprived regular citizens' basical rights in surveilllance system.
    • 2003 March 19, Frank Evers, “Cubase recording problem”, in alt.steinberg.cubase[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-25:
      Are you recording midi on a midi-track (sorry for asking this very basical questions)
    • 2017 August 1, Icenowy Zheng, “[PATCH 00/13] Allwinner H3 DE2 basical support”, in linux.kernel[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-25:
      This patchset is now a basical version, which dropped some features I used to submitted:
      - TVE support (not so high priority now)
      - Multi-pipeline support (also not so high priority now due to no TVE)