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to stylize

to stylize

8 6.4
Make something look less natural by showing it in a simple, fixed way
  • verb
  • /ˈstaɪlˌaɪz/
translation icon : estilizar
  • So what we do is we try to deliberately make it slightly stylized, slightly animation, like changing the person I am.
  • highly stylized
  • stylized image
  • stylized motif

Examples

  • My Heritage offers a stylized image of the interior of the royal tomb at Kasubi, near Kampala.

    Academic text (2004)
  • We also review the previous literature on the topic of tax reforms and describe stylized facts.

    Academic text (2016)
  • So now it's time to stylize and set up this shot item number one.

  • Our discussion allows us to state the following about a stylized oil reservoir.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Recent expositions of the masters have grown more stylized in their treatment and more focused upon the person.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Clearly, the sequence is indeed rather stylized in the way characters fit themselves into arrangements of harmonized colors.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The camerawork in Cruise is stylized like amateur photographs or home movies.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Colorful graphic icons are stylized representations of functions and services that are accessible on the iPhone.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Unlike Gropper's free linear technique, Gellert's cover is highly stylized with horizontal bands.

    Academic text (2002)
  • The artist decided to stylize the landscape in a way that emphasized vibrant colors instead of realistic shades.

Synonyms

to style
vsto stylize
27 3.2

To arrange hair or clothes to look a certain way

represents deliberately in a conventional or non naturalistic way
to restyle
vsto stylize
2 3.9

To change the style of something, for example hair or clothes

portrays deliberately in a conventional or non naturalistic way not merely altering appearance

How Stylized

to exaggerate
258 3.1
to stylize
8 6.4
to depict
176 3.5

Surface Forms

stylize infinitive
stylise infinitive
stylized past
stylised past
stylized past participle
stylised past participle
stylizing present participle
stylising present participle
stylizes third person singular
stylises third person singular

Morphology

stylize = style (transparent) = style + ize

Formed by the productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' added to the noun 'style', so the meaning 'to give a particular style' is directly derived.

Etymology

The word stylize comes from style, a word that once meant a writing tool and then came to mean 'a way of doing or showing something', and the ending -ize means 'to make'. So to stylize is to 'make something have a certain style', changing its look on purpose rather than showing it exactly as it is.