shared by, including or typical of a whole group of things; not specific 一般的；普通的；通用的 (of a product, especially a drug 产品，尤指药物 not using the name of the company that made it 无厂家商标的；无商标的 - (disapproving) (of a film, song, story, etc.)
lacking imagination and so not original 一般： 缺乏想象力，因此不是原创The movie was pretty boring, with a generic storyline and emotionless characters. 这部电影很无聊，有一个普通的故事情节和没有感情的角色。
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French générique, from Latin genus, gener- ‘stock, race’.