Usually means: Describe qualities or features distinctly.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. characterize: Merriam-Webster
  2. characterize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. characterize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. characterize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. characterize: Vocabulary.com
  6. Characterize, characterize: Wordnik
  7. characterize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. characterize: Wiktionary
  9. characterize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. characterize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. characterize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Characterize, characterize: Dictionary.com
  13. characterize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Characterize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. characterize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. characterize: Rhymezone
  17. Characterize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. characterize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. characterize: FreeDictionary.org
  20. characterize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. characterize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. characterize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. characterize: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. characterize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. characterize: Medical dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) To depict someone or something a particular way (often negative).
▸ verb:  (transitive) To be typical of.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To determine the characteristics of.

Similar:
qualify, characterise, typify, stereotype, picture, portray, color, stell, depicture, paint, more...

Opposite:
misrepresent, distort, misconstrue, misinterpret, obscure

Types:
describe, portray, depict, represent, illustrate, define, label, categorize, more...

Phrases:
characterize itself, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     azure,     emerald,     saffron,     indigo, more...



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Similar:
qualify, characterise, typify, stereotype, picture, portray, color, stell, depicture, paint, more...

Opposite:
misrepresent, distort, misconstrue, misinterpret, obscure

Types:
describe, portray, depict, represent, illustrate, define, label, categorize, more...

Phrases:
characterize itself, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     azure,     emerald,     saffron,     indigo, more...



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