Word Meanings - CHARACTERIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the

Additional info about word: CHARACTERIZE

1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the character of; to describe. Under the name of Tamerlane he intended to characterize King William. Johnson. 4. To be a characteristic of; to make, or express the character of. The softness and effeminacy which characterize the men of rank in most countries. W. Irving. Syn. -- To describe; distinguish; mark; designate; style; particularize; entitle.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHARACTERIZE)

• Distinguish
• Discern
• descry
• perceive
• characterize
• make famous
• know
• discriminate
• see
• discover
• separate
• divide
• dissimilate
• differentiate
• Entitle
• Qualify
• empower
• tit
• enable
• name
• style
• denominate
• designate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CHARACTERIZE)

• Misname
• miscall
• misdesignate
• misindicate
• hint
• suggest
• shadow
• adumbrate

Related words: (words related to CHARACTERIZE)

• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• STYLET
  A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• SUGGESTION
  Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested;
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• DISCRIMINATENESS
  The state of being discriminated; distinctness.
• DISCERNINGLY
  In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely. Garth.
• PERCEIVER
  One who perceives . Milton.
• DISCOVERABLE
  Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
• DISCOVERY
  1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot. 2. A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next
• PERCEIVE
  perceptum; per + capere to take, receive. See Capacious, 1. To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the
• FAMOUSNESS
  The state of being famous.
• SHADOWINESS
  The quality or state of being shadowy.
• DISCERNMENT
  1. The act of discerning. 2. The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness;
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• ARAEOSTYLE
  See INTERCOLUMNIATION
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• INFAMOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
• SURSTYLE
  To surname.
• AMPHIPROSTYLE
  Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.
• INSTYLE
  To style. Crashaw.
• TENABLENESS
  See TENABILITY