Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to generalize
Participle: generalized
Gerund: generalizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | generalize |
| you | generalize |
| he;she;it | generalizes |
| we | generalize |
| you | generalize |
| they | generalize |
Perfect
| I | have generalized |
| you | have generalized |
| he;she;it | has generalized |
| we | have generalized |
| you | have generalized |
| they | have generalized |
Past
| I | generalized |
| you | generalized |
| he;she;it | generalized |
| we | generalized |
| you | generalized |
| they | generalized |
Pluperfect
| I | had generalized |
| you | had generalized |
| he;she;it | had generalized |
| we | had generalized |
| you | had generalized |
| they | had generalized |
Future
| I | will generalize |
| you | will generalize |
| he;she;it | will generalize |
| we | will generalize |
| you | will generalize |
| they | will generalize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have generalized |
| you | will have generalized |
| he;she;it | will have generalized |
| we | will have generalized |
| you | will have generalized |
| they | will have generalized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | generalize |
| you | generalize |
| he;she;it | generalize |
| we | generalize |
| you | generalize |
| they | generalize |
Perfect
| I | have generalized |
| you | have generalized |
| he;she;it | have generalized |
| we | have generalized |
| you | have generalized |
| they | have generalized |
Imperfect
| I | generalized |
| you | generalized |
| he;she;it | generalized |
| we | generalized |
| you | generalized |
| they | generalized |
Pluperfect
| I | had generalized |
| you | had generalized |
| he;she;it | had generalized |
| we | had generalized |
| you | had generalized |
| they | had generalized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would generalize |
| you | would generalize |
| he;she;it | would generalize |
| we | would generalize |
| you | would generalize |
| they | would generalize |
Perfect
| I | would have generalized |
| you | would have generalized |
| he;she;it | would have generalized |
| we | would have generalized |
| you | would have generalized |
| they | would have generalized |
Imperative
| you | generalize |
| we | Let's generalize |
| you | generalize |
Verbs conjugated like 'generalize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'generalize'
generalise,
centralize,
federalize,
funeralize,
genericize,
genialize,
genitalize,
mineralize,
regeneralize,
severalize,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- make bland
- genericize
- to make general or vague; to reduce precision
- genericize
Antonyms
- speak in generalities
- specify
- to state explicitly; to go into specific detail
- specify
- to make general or vague; to reduce precision
- specify
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-os
4. Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
5. Proto-Italic *genos
6. Latin genus, generis
7. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
8. Proto-Indo-European *-is
9. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
10. Proto-Italic *-ālis
11. Latin -ālis
12. Latin generālisbor.
13. Anglo-Norman generalbor.
14. Middle French generalbor.
15. ▲
16. Latin generālisder.
17. Middle English general
18. English general
19. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
20. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
21. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
22. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
23. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
24. Late Latin -izōder.
25. Middle French -iserbor.
26. Middle English -isen
27. English -ize
28. English generalize
29. From general + -ize.
Sample Sentences
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[...] from first to last, and had a perfect understanding of its results. To him, it looked like something unutterably horrible and cruel, because, poor, ignorant black soul ! he had not learned to generalize, and to take enlarged views. If he had only been instructed by certain ministers of Christianity, he might have thought better of it, and seen in it an every-day incident of a lawful trade; a trade [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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She felt, too, for those fond, faithful servants, to whom she was as daylight and sunshine. Children do not usually generalize; but Eva was an uncommonly mature child, and the things that she had witnessed of the evils of the system under which they were living had fallen, one by one, into the depths of her thoughtful, [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)