| 单词 | characterization |
| 释义 | characterization (once / 4207 pages) n If you write a play portraying your workplace as comically disorganized and woefully inefficient, you better hope it makes money, because your boss may fire you for this characterization. The word characterization describes how something is represented. When you break apart the word characterization it’s easy to figure out what it means. Character tells you that this word will likely involve the qualities a person or thing has. The -ization ending means it is a noun — the act of doing something. You can use the word characterization to describe the depiction of a character in a book or a movie, or also as a way a particular person, group, or event is portrayed, such as a journalist’s characterization of a political enemy. WORD FAMILYcharacterization: characterizations+/character: charactered, charactering, characterise, characteristic, characterize, characterless, characters/characterisation: characterisations/characterise: characterisation, characterised, characterises, characterising/characteristic: characteristically, characteristicly, characteristics, uncharacteristic/characterize: characterization, characterized, characterizes, characterizing/uncharacteristic: uncharacteristically USAGE EXAMPLES“A feast for the eye, with every scene animated by sharp detail and witty characterization,” Luke Jennings wrote in The Observer. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) “Characterization, theme, psychology, the poetry of the language are primary ahead of time and place,” he says. Los Angeles Times(Dec 21, 2016) This is a false characterization of the reforms that I and many others support. Wall Street Journal(Dec 20, 2016) 1n the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features the media's characterization of Al Gore as a nerd Syn|Hyper characterisation description the act of describing something 2n a graphic or vivid verbal description the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters Syn|Hypo|Hyper characterisation, delineation, depiction, picture, word picture, word-painting epithet descriptive word or phrase portrait, portraiture, portrayala word picture of a person's appearance and character description, verbal description a statement that represents something in words 3n acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture Syn|Hypo|Hyper characterisation, enactment, personation, portrayal impression an impressionistic portrayal of a person character, part, persona, role, theatrical rolean actor's portrayal of someone in a play bit part, minor rolea small role heavya serious (or tragic) role in a play herothe principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem ingenuethe role of an innocent artless young woman in a play name part, title rolethe role of the character after whom the play is named heroinethe main good female character in a work of fiction baddie, villainthe principal bad character in a film or work of fiction acting, performing, playacting, playing the performance of a part or role in a drama |
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