characterize

Verb

Meaning

To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features.

To engrave or imprint.

To indicate the character of; to describe.

To be a characteristic of; to make, or express the character of.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

distinguish characterise mark name style describe represent indicate identify define label denote qualify differentiate depict
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Antonyms

break disorder disrupt disperse confuse displace
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Hypernyms

mark distinguish remember differentiate think of

Hyponyms

mark define distinguish stamp differentiate individuate

Phrases with the word

briefly characterize characterize as inhuman characterize as evil characterize as

Derivatives

characterized characterizing

Examples

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seemin my opinionto characterize our age. Albert Einstein

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. John Ruskin

Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have. Aristotle

Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy. Andrea Dworkin

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil. Daniel Yergin

I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious. Kim Kardashian

Close letter words and terms

characterization characterizational characterizationally characterize as evil characterize as inhuman characterized by