Thesaurus results for CHARACTERED

charactered

verb

past tense of character

as in characterized

to point out the chief quality or qualities of an individual or group formerly charactered as "the dark ages," that period of history may not have been quite so benighted as once thought

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Recent Examples of charactered An earlier version of this story also incorrectly charactered Lyda Hill Philanthropies. — Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 18 Mar. 2026 Meanwhile, protesters gathered in Times Square to stand against what organizers charactered as a war against Venezuela. — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for charactered

Verb

That deal, which attorneys characterized as verbal in nature, fell apart on the last day of trial and ended with a shouting match in the judge’s chambers, defense attorneys for Anthony testified.

— Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Aug. 2026
Mark Ruffalo is pushing back against Paramount Skydance after the media giant characterized his anti-merger comments as antisemitic.

— Angela Yang, NBC news, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of characterized

Verb

The untimely death of Hayden Panettiere, a onetime child star who soared to fame while navigating addiction and postpartum depression in her adult life, came just months after the beloved actor described feeling ready to start over.

— Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
Though the war in Gaza was not a central campaign issue, Wahab has criticized Israel’s military actions in Gaza and described it as a genocide.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of described

Verb

And increasingly, the biggest EV factory may no longer be defined simply by the number of cars rolling off a single assembly line, but by the size of the entire industrial ecosystem built around them.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Aug. 2026
After all those years, the curse had finally been broken, and a franchise once defined by failure suddenly became one of baseball’s great modern success stories.

— Emile Nuh, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026