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stylized

stylized

11 5.9
Made to follow an artistic look rather than appear natural
  • adjective
  • /ˈstaɪləˌaɪzd/
translation icon : estilizado
  • In the animated film, the characters are stylized to convey exaggerated emotions and features, making them more memorable.
  • a highly stylized
  • stylized representation
  • stylized form

This is very stylized and I'm very happy with it.

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Examples

  • In this paper, they say that gender is a thing we do through repeated, stylized acts.

  • On one hand, Strindberg's one-act plays are more stylized and less naturalistic than usually thought.

    Academic text (1996)
  • I think my favorite case are stylized pictures.

  • This is such a great example of how something can be very stylized and yet really clearly communicate the design to us.

  • This is very stylized and I'm very happy with it.

  • After a time, the lights find Baron and Face, who perform a stylized dance to the music.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • It is the stylized repetition of acts through time.

  • The most common form of ornamentation is a stylized flower called a kurbits.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The cover of the palette is a stylized photo of my family's Day of the Dead altar.

  • The arch-shaped steel door to the oven bears the manufacturer's logo, a stylized metallic shield with the name Topf.

    Fiction book (1994)

Synonyms

artsy
vsstylized
  • Informal
10 4.3

Having a creative, unusual style like an artist

emphasizes set artistic conventions rather than creative or unconventional style
conventionalized
vsstylized
7.0

Made in a usual way and not natural or spontaneous

follows particular artistic conventions instead of appearing natural or realistic

How Stylized

exaggerated
1 4.1
cartoonish
10 4.2
stylized
11 5.9
abstract
35 7.1
naturalistic
12 6.0

Surface Forms

stylized positive
stylised positive

Morphology

stylized = stylize (transparent) = style + ize + d

Formed by adding the past-participial/adjectival suffix '-d' to 'stylize', a productive and semantically regular process.

Etymology

Stylized comes from style, a word that once meant a particular 'way' of writing or making things and you can see the same root in stylist. So, something stylized follows a chosen 'style' or set of rules instead of trying to look exactly like real life.