Synonyms for characterized
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : kar-ik-tuh-rahyz |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkær ɪk təˌraɪz |
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Définition 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
- 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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