characterizes

verbtypify, distinguish

Synonyms for characterizes

verb typify, distinguish

Antonyms for characterizes

Word Origin & History

1590s, "to engrave, write," back-formation from characterization, or else from Medieval Latin characterizare, from Greek kharakterizein "to designate by a characteristic mark," from kharakter (see character). Meaning "to describe the qualities of" is recorded from 1630s; that of "to be characteristic" is from 1744. Related: Characterized; characterizing.

Example Sentences for characterizes

This is what Mr. Rhodes characterizes as an attack on civilization.

He classes and characterizes the inhabitants of that country, as follows: 1.

Hume characterizes the account as 'full of the grossest and most palpable lies.'

Moreover, he had the slow yet jerky way of speaking that characterizes the pedant.

Hurter characterizes him as in morum doctrina versatissimus.

This the senator from Kentucky characterizes as ridiculous abstraction.

The cordination of actions is the attribute which characterizes all organisms.

What characterizes the middle ages is the spirit of liberty.

It foreshadows the power in plot-making that characterizes our author's later works.

There is nothing said in the narrative, which characterizes it as a Sabbath.