Synonyms for generalize
ˈdʒɛn ər əˌlaɪzgen·er·al·ize

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1. generalizeverb

   Antonyms:
   specialize

2. generalizeverb

   Antonyms:
   specialize

3. generalizeverb

   Antonyms:
   specialize

4. generalizeverb

   Antonyms:
   specialize

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. generalize, generalise, extrapolate, inferverb

   draw from specific cases for more general cases

   Synonyms:
   deduct, extrapolate, generalise, guess, infer, vulgarise, popularise, understand, deduce, derive, vulgarize, interpolate, popularize

   Antonyms:
   particularise, particularize, specialize, specify, specialise

2. generalize, generaliseverb

   speak or write in generalities

   Synonyms:
   extrapolate, generalise, infer, vulgarise, popularise, vulgarize, popularize

   Antonyms:
   specify, specialise, particularise, particularize, specialize

3. popularize, popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generaliseverb

   cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use

   "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"

   Synonyms:
   extrapolate, generalise, infer, vulgarise, popularise, vulgarize, popularize

   Antonyms:
   specialise, particularize, specify, specialize, particularise

4. generalize, generaliseverb

   become systemic and spread throughout the body

   "this kind of infection generalizes throughout the immune system"

   Synonyms:
   extrapolate, generalise, infer, vulgarise, popularise, vulgarize, popularize

   Antonyms:
   specialise, specialize, particularize, specify, particularise

Matched Categories

1. • Conclude
   • Disseminate
   • Speak
   • Spread

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1. List of paraphrases for "generalize":

   generalise, extrapolate

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1. Dylan Small:

   The big caution is that these findings may not generalize to high school football today, because the game has changed a lot, the players are generally bigger and youth sports have become much more professionalized.

2. William Blake:

   To generalize is to be an idiot.

3. Stephen Brackett:

   The moment you start to generalize, the moment it starts to feel a little inauthentic, we go to the theater to see humanity onstage -- life reflected.

4. Courtney Gidengil:

   While the findings seem reassuring in terms of the monkeys doing fine, I dont think we can generalize from it with certainty for humans, given the small sample size.

5. Oliver Wendell Holmes:

   There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.