Synonyms for generalize

Grammar : Verb

Spell : jen-er-uh-lahyz

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɛn ər əˌlaɪz

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Définition of generalize

Origin : 1751, probably a new formation from general (adj.) + -ize. Middle English had generalisen (early 15c.). Related: Generalizable; generalized; generalizing.

verb make a sweeping assumption, statement

Example sentences :

It is just as impossible to generalize granite and slate, as it is to generalize a man and a cow.
Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin

There are too many words as well as too few; and they generalize the objects or ideas which they represent.
Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato

It may be said that these were excrescences or city fashions; that one must not generalize.
Extract from : « The New Society » by Walther Rathenau

It is easier to generalize in this manner than to produce documents in proof.
Extract from : « The Science of Fairy Tales » by Edwin Sidney Hartland

It is dangerous to generalize from events not really settled.
Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin

Nor is it safe to generalize about him, or any other bird for that matter.
Extract from : « A Bird-Lover in the West » by Olive Thorne Miller

I am beginning to generalize—the very thing I was resolute to avoid.
Extract from : « McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 » by Various

We can only generalize as to when and how extensive this substitution of wheat for tobacco may have been.
Extract from : « Tobacco in Colonial Virginia » by Melvin Herndon

When one sets out to generalize he does so at his own peril.
Extract from : « Flash-lights from the Seven Seas » by William L. Stidger

Some of the details she had forgotten, as she grew more and more to generalize.
Extract from : « Story of My Life » by Helen Keller

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