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Antonyms for characterize

Grammar : Verb
Spell : kar-ik-tuh-rahyz
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkær ɪk təˌraɪz

Definition of characterize

Origin :
  • 1590s, "to engrave, write," back-formation from characterization, or else from Medieval Latin characterizare, from Greek kharakterizein "to designate by a characteristic mark," from kharakter (see character). Meaning "to describe the qualities of" is recorded from 1630s; that of "to be characteristic" is from 1744. Related: Characterized; characterizing.
  • verb typify, distinguish
Example sentences :
  • Calmness, justice, and consideration should characterize our diplomacy.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • I dodge discrimination, and characterize them en masse by negations.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 » by Various
  • Let neatness, and order, characterize all your arrangements.
  • Extract from : « The Ladies' Work-Table Book » by Anonymous
  • I leave the reader to characterize a system which is endangered by such causes.
  • Extract from : « My Bondage and My Freedom » by Frederick Douglass
  • Softness, gentleness, composure, characterize every movement.
  • Extract from : « The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers » by John Burroughs
  • The precise nature of her lack he had not felt the necessity to characterize.
  • Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1915 » by Various
  • These motor boys and girls have what I may characterize as fluidity of the attention.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Mind » by James Mark Baldwin
  • The etholog personates a specimen of a class which helps to characterize a period.
  • Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
  • The human personality and identity are more difficult to characterize.
  • Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
  • Not those, surely, which should characterize a general of the nineteenth century.
  • Extract from : « Southern Literature From 1579-1895 » by Louise Manly

Synonyms for characterize

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