Another word for characterize | Synonyms for characterize

Another word for characterize

characterize Synonyms

characterize

v.

To describe
delineate, designate, portray; see define 2, describe.
To distinguish
discriminate, mark, identify; see distinguish 1.

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Another word for characterize

verb

To describe with a word or term:
call, designate, label, name, style, tag, term. See specific, words
To make noticeable or different:
differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, individualize, mark, set apart, signalize, singularize. See same

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These changes characterize the Merovingian age of Frankish history.
It is most difficult to characterize the muskinu exactly.
It is distinguishable by its uniform greyishbrown primaries, which want the tawny bars that characterize B.
Did not the Lamb of God, suspended at each knight's heart, symbolize at once the woollen fabrics to which so much of Flemish wealth and Burgundian power was owing, and the gentle humility of Christ which was ever to characterize the order?
In his Philosophia Botanica (1751) Linnaeus grouped the genera then known into sixty-seven orders (fragmenta), all except five of which are Angiosperms. He gave names to these but did not characterize them or attempt to arrange them in larger groups.

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