What is another word for characterizes?

Pronunciation: [kˈaɹɪktəɹˌa͡ɪzɪz] (IPA)

When it comes to defining or describing characteristics, there are several possible synonyms. Depending on the context and the intention, some of these synonyms may be more appropriate than others. For example, the word "typifies" can be used to mean characterizes, but it specifically connotes a representative or classic example of something. Other synonyms for characterizes include depicts, portrays, exemplifies, highlights, showcases, captures, expresses, embodies, and symbolizes. Each of these synonyms has a slightly different nuance, but they all share the sense of representing or conveying the essential qualities or traits of something or someone. By using synonyms for characterizes, writers can add variety and precision to their descriptions.

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Usage examples for Characterizes

Unmistakable as to her race, she was yet a head and shoulders taller than the rest, but possessing the high cheek-bones, square face, and Mongolian cast of eyes which characterizes them.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
In crossing the peninsula by rail one does not enjoy the picturesque scenery which characterizes the Gotha Canal route.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
They seek to extend Government control only because, and only so far as, they believe Government control to be necessary and fitted to realize certain theories of right and well-being which they think it incumbent on organized society to realize; and consequently the thing that properly characterizes their position is not so much the degree of their confidence in the powers of the State as the nature of the theories of right for which they invoke its intervention.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae

Famous quotes with Characterizes

  • When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.
    George P. Baker
  • One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.
    Whitfield Diffie
  • That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.
    Paul Hawken
  • What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
    Norman Mailer
  • An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
    Thomas Mann

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