• v.
    ⦿describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of
    lexical concept
  • This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover
  • You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:characterise
  2. enl:characterize
  3. enl:qualify
wn:interlingual indexili:i26380

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • characterisecharacterize
  • characterisecharacterizequalify