Particularize

Quick meaning: Particularize is a verb meaning (transitive) To make particular, as opposed to general; to restrict to a specific or individual case, class etc.; to single out.

Meaning

(transitive) To make particular, as opposed to general; to restrict to a specific or individual case, class etc.; to single out.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, intransitive) To be specific about (individual instances); to go into detail (about), to specify.
2. (intransitive) To differentiate, make distinct from others.

Example Sentences

'Tis hard I confesse, yet I have disposed of them as I could, and will descend to particularize them according to their species.

Twice we find him, not only boasting of his Parentage, as an Israelite at large, but particularizing his Descent from the Tribe of Benjamin.

Now it is his daily work to particularize, item by item, the iniquities of the system, and the petty manifestations of the tyranny here in Arras.

Word Forms

• particularizes
• particularizing
• particularized
• particularise

Synonyms for particularize

Depending on context, synonyms include clarify, explicitize, specify, distinguish, severalize, specialize.

Antonyms for particularize

Common opposites include generalize, generalise.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include specify, specialize, clarifying, clarify, specificize, peculiarize.

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