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oriented

oriented

3.7
Familiar with a place or aimed at a particular purpose
  • adjective
  • /ˈɔːrɪɛntɪd/
translation icon : orientado
  • If you're someone that is detail oriented, I think it's kind of an art really.
  • community-oriented

And fundamentally, most of my behavior was oriented around this war.

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Examples

  • The new office layout is designed to be more team oriented, encouraging collaboration among employees.

  • Well, they're much more customer service oriented, I'll tell you that much.

  • So all of these things are, are very clear change oriented actions.

  • Whilst men are self oriented, women are other oriented.

  • And everything they do is oriented around that, that North Star.

  • I was so caught up in this goal oriented life.

  • This is a very, you know, action agency oriented notion.

  • These tend to be approach oriented, reward focused people.

  • He creates a warm, safe, loving, family oriented, full of laughs environment.

  • It tends to be much more masculine oriented than than anything else.

Synonyms

orientated
vsoriented
  • UK
5.2

Directed toward a specific situation, purpose, or idea

is the same in meaning but appears as the alternative common spelling

Antonyms

41 4.1

Unable to think clearly or know where you are

Compounds

1 4.9

A way to write programs that keeps data and the actions that use it together to organize and reuse code

7.3

A language used to write programs for a specific kind of computer, like a phone or a large computer

A programming language that uses terms familiar to its users

9.1

A programming language made for one kind of computer to control hardware directly

job-oriented terminal
  • Specialized
7.7

A computer used for one specific work task, like taking orders

6.7

A database that keeps data and the programs that use it together, good for storing images and videos

A database that stores data as items that behave like parts of a program

A computer language that uses objects and classes to organize code

8.1

A computer language that uses words and ideas from a specific kind of work

How Oriented

purposeful
27 4.2
oriented
3.7
disoriented
41 4.1
off balance
34 4.0

Surface Forms

oriented positive

Morphology

oriented = orient (transparent) = orient + ed

Formed regularly from the verb 'orient' + '-ed' meaning 'positioned or directed', so a learner who knows 'orient' can derive the adjective sense.

Etymology

The word oriented comes from orient, from the Latin oriens meaning 'rising' or 'east', the direction of the sunrise. Long ago people would face or 'orient' buildings toward the sun, so oriented now means 'turned toward' a place or idea or having a clear direction.