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Synonyms for category
ˈkæt ɪˌgɔr i, -ˌgoʊr icat·e·go·ry

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Wiktionary4.0 / 1 vote

  1. categorynoun

    Synonyms:
    genus, race, order, tribe, kingdom, phylum, group, class, family, type

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.2 / 6 votes

  1. category

    Synonyms:
    state, kind, predicament, condition, nature, order, mode, sort, class

    Antonyms:
    essence, truth, being

Princeton's WordNet4.0 / 1 vote

  1. class, category, familynoun

    a collection of things sharing a common attribute

    "there are two classes of detergents"

    Synonyms:
    kinsperson, mob, form, family unit, kinfolk, grade, division, family line, year, class, home, course of instruction, kinsfolk, course of study, family, social class, house, syndicate, crime syndicate, folk, socio-economic class, menage, household, fellowship, sept, kin, phratry, stratum, course

  2. categorynoun

    a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme

    Synonyms:
    family, class

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Dictionary of English Synonymes3.0 / 1 vote

  1. categorynoun

    Synonyms:
    class, head, division, order, rank

  2. categorynoun

    Synonyms:
    predicament, plight, condition, case, state, situation

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.0 / 1 vote

  1. categorynoun

    Synonyms:
    class, state, condition, division, predicament

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "category":

    class, categories, grade, heading, type, level, classes, group, catégorie, box, rank, tier, status, kind

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How to use category in a sentence?

  1. Nancy Hogshead-Makar:

    This topic is very uncomfortable for people. They do n’t understand it, and so they took the lazy way out, the lazy way out is saying, ‘ Put them in the women’s category. ’.

  2. Tim Dixon:

    And maybe that's the blueprint for a future candidate, it's to speak to the values that the country shares and to say we're more than just a demographic category. We're more than just a political partisan.

  3. Gun City:

    The MSSA, military-style automatic, reportedly used by the alleged gunman was not purchased from Gun City. Gun City did not sell him an MSSA, only A-category firearms.

  4. State Office:

    We’re on track to break records in terms of voter turnout in every category, in 2018, 223,576 Georgians voted by mail for Governor. So far this year, we’ve received 239,789 requests for absentee ballots, 238,356 have been mailed out. We’ll exceed 2018’s total for mailed-in ballots. So far we’ve been breaking the early vote record set in 2018, and we’re approaching the early vote numbers in 2020.

  5. San Francisco-based ThirdLove:

    We haven't yet seen an impact. We're hoping our product category will not be affected by these tariffs.


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