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crystallized

crystallized

5.1
Ideas or plans that become clear and fixed
  • adjective
  • /ˈkrɪstəlˌaɪzd/
translation icon : cristalizado
  • Her thoughts on the project became crystallized after several brainstorming sessions.

Does devotion itself become crystallized into an object?

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Examples

  • And I think white America is waking up to a more crystallized sense of all of this.

  • It was crystallized, as they say, in law, right, crystallized at that moment.

  • Does devotion itself become crystallized into an object?

  • And this is singularly crystallized in natural law.

  • Why shouldn't we just profit from the crystallized and reflected upon experience of of others?

  • The teacher's explanation gave students a crystallized understanding of the complex topic.

  • As the discussion progressed, their initial confusion turned into a crystallized consensus.

Synonyms

solidified
vscrystallized
3.8

It becomes hard when it cools from a liquid or gas

is about ideas becoming clear and fixed in nonphysical form

Antonyms

207 3.9

Not easy to understand or know for sure

68 6.3

Not clear because it can have more than one meaning

Compounds

Small pieces of ginger cooked and covered in sugar, used as a sweet or in baking

Fruit cooked in sugar syrup and coated with sugar

A form of honey in which part of the sugar has formed small crystals, making it thick or solid

How Definite

fixed
1.8
crystallized
5.1
clear
1.0
uncertain
149 2.8
vague
230 4.6

Surface Forms

crystallized positive

Morphology

crystallized = crystallize (semi-transparent) = crystal + ize + ed

Morphologically regular formation from the verb 'crystallize' with the past-participle/adjectival -ed.

Etymology

Crystallized comes from crystal, which originally comes from krystallos meaning 'ice' or 'clear rock'. Just as a liquid can harden into a clear, fixed crystal shape, an idea that crystallized becomes clear and fixed in your mind.