Basic or BASIC may refer to:

Science and technology

• BASIC, a computer programming language

• Basic (chemistry), having the properties of a base

• Basic access authentication, in HTTP

Entertainment

• Basic (2003 film), an American thriller film

• Basic (2026 film), an American comedy film

• Basic, one of the languages in Star Wars

Music

• Basic (Glen Campbell album), 1978

• Basic (Robert Quine and Fred Maher album), 1984

• B.A.S.I.C. (Alpinestars album), 2000

• Basic (Brown Eyed Girls album), 2015

• B.A.S.I.C. (The Basics album), 2019

Places

• Basic, Mississippi, a community in the US

• BASIC countries, Brazil, South Africa, India and China in climate change negotiations

Organizations

• BASIC Bank Limited, government owned bank in Bangladesh

• Basic Books, an American publisher

Other uses

• Basic (cigarette), a brand of cigarettes manufactured by the Altria Group (Philip Morris Company)

• Basic (dance move), the dance move that defines the character of a particular dance

• Basic (slang), a pejorative term in American English

• British American Security Information Council, a think tank based in London

• Bašić, South Slavic surname

See also

• Basic English, an English-based controlled language with a limited vocabulary

Visual Basic (classic), a computer programming language

• Visual Basic .NET, a computer programming language based on the .NET Framework

• Basics (disambiguation)

• Base (disambiguation)

• Basis (disambiguation)

• Basic mandate, an aspect of the electoral system