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cued

/kjuːd/

cued adjective: having or relying on a cue or cues. Also the simple past and past participle of cue.

Adjective

cued (comparative more cued, superlative most cued)

  1. Having or relying on a cue or cues.
    • The semi-direct measures were to involve a more cued response language laboratory DCT spoken sample and a free response face-to-tace structured interview.1995, Thom Hudson, James Dean Brown, Emily Detmer, Developing Prototypic Measures of Cross-cultural Pragmatics, page 3
    • I vividly remember the case of a six year old boy, who although very cued otherwise, was unable to remember a word, let alone a sentence and he could not read even simple words for the first six months, which gave me the worst headache.2012, Rania Foka, Soft Landing Learning, page 7

Also used as

cued is also the simple past and past participle of cue.

Examples of cued in a sentence

  • A comparison of the cued recall probabilities to the cue-word associative strength values revealed an especially interesting age difference.2013, Wolfgang Schneider, Michael Pressley, Memory Development Between Two and Twenty:
  • For some analyses, Lamb, Sternberg, Orbach, Esplin, Stewart, and Mitchell (2003) distinguished between general invitations (e.g., "Tell me everything that happened") and cued invitations.2018, Michael E. Lamb, Deirdre A. Brown, Irit Hershkowitz, Tell Me What Happened: Questioning Children About Abuse, page 122:

Forms of cued

comparativemore cued
superlativemost cued

Words formed from cued

Phrases with cued

Words that rhyme with cued

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Questions about cued

What does cued mean?
Cued means having or relying on a cue or cues.
How do you use cued in a sentence?
A comparison of the cued recall probabilities to the cue-word associative strength values revealed an especially interesting age difference.
What part of speech is cued?
Cued is an adjective.
How do you pronounce cued?
Cued is pronounced /kjuːd/.

Words near cued in the dictionary

  1. cueballs
  2. cuebid
  3. cuebids
  4. cueca
  5. cuecas
  6. cued
  7. cued in
  8. cued off
  9. cued up
  10. cueillette
  11. cueillettes

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