Usually means: Apply knowledge broadly across situations.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word generalize:

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

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. generalize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. generalize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. generalize: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. generalize: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. generalize, generalize: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See generalizability as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.
▸ verb:  To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
▸ verb:  To spread throughout the body and become systemic.
▸ verb:  To derive or deduce (a general concept or principle) from particular facts.

Similar:
extrapolate, infer, generalise, regeneralize, genericize, universalize, call, totalize, distribute, commonize, more...

Opposite:
specialize, specialization

Types:
stereotype, overgeneralize, profiling, more...

Phrases:
to generalize, more...

Adjectives:
over, how, former, individual, variable, latter, better

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     ivory,     cream, more...



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Similar:
extrapolate, infer, generalise, regeneralize, genericize, universalize, call, totalize, distribute, commonize, more...

Opposite:
specialize, specialization

Types:
stereotype, overgeneralize, profiling, more...

Phrases:
to generalize, more...

Adjectives:
over, how, former, individual, variable, latter, better

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     taupe,     ivory,     cream, more...



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