Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To represent (someone or something) in a particular style.

    represent according to a conventional style

  2. (transitive)To represent (someone or something) abstractly in a conventional manner, commonly fancifully symbolic, to identify a particular item, by omitting most of the detail that is not unique to the item in question.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. The Chinese character for money is a stylized drawing of a cowry shell.

    ruКитайский иероглиф, означающий «деньги», представляет из себя стилизованное изображение раковины каури. — Wezel

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Translations

3 languages

Origin

From style + -ize. Probably from German stilisieren.

From style + -ize. Probably from German stilisieren.

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Forms

stylizes, stylizing, stylized, stylized
Base formstylize · to stylize
3rd person singularstylizes
Present participlestylizing
Past simplestylized
Past participlestylized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theystylize
he, she, itstylizes

Past simpleLesson

all personsstylized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave stylized
he, she, ithas stylized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill stylize

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words
Relatedstylizationstyle
Derivedstylizer

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
stylishB1stylishlystylistB2stylisticC1stylusstymiestyrofoam
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