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Antonyms for characterized

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


Definition of characterized

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 :
  • It was characterized as "a policy of which peace, progress and retrenchment were the watchwords."
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • Linda entered with exactly the same self-possession that characterized her at home.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • From the very beginning, the American people have been characterized by idealism.
  • Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry
  • The genus is characterized by awl-shaped spines which are distant at the base.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • Our action is overmastered and characterized above our will by the law of nature.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • He there exhibited that bold intrepidity which has ever characterized his actions.
  • Extract from : « Three Years in the Federal Cavalry » by Willard Glazier
  • Taste, judgment, and eloquence, characterized all his efforts in Congress.
  • Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 » by Various
  • He occasionally did it, he occasionally said it, from the passive hospitality that characterized him.
  • Extract from : « The Coast of Bohemia » by William Dean Howells
  • But it also causes his lack of depth and the prolixity by which he is characterized.
  • Extract from : « Erasmus and the Age of Reformation » by Johan Huizinga
  • All the soft sweetness, the gladness of it, that characterized it a moment since, is gone.
  • Extract from : « Molly Bawn » by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

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