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gracilized

gracilized is the simple past and past participle of gracilize.

Meaning of gracilize

Verb

gracilize (third-person singular simple present gracilizes, present participle gracilizing, simple past and past participle gracilized)

  1. To exhibit a reduction in bone mass due to the process of evolution.
    • The apparent absence of any apparent sexual or age-based divisions of labour contrasts strikingly with anatomically modern humans of the Pleistocene in which females appear to gracilize relatively quickly, implying perhaps a sex-based division of labour (Soffer 1994).2001 June 29, PB Pettitt, “Neanderthal lifecycles: Developmental and social phases in the lives of the last archaics”, in World archaeology, volume 31, number 3

Adjective

gracilized (comparative more gracilized, superlative most gracilized)

  1. Exhibiting a reduction in bone mass as the result of evolution.
    • The results show a fairly gracilized body build both in males and females, and a morphological convergence of the proportions of the two sexes.1972 March 2, M Masali, “Body size and proportions as revealed by bone measurements and their meaning in environmental adaptation”, in Journal of Human Evolution, volume 1
    • Wade argues that our pre-gracilized ancestors lived in a world closer to Hobbes than Rousseau.2011, JH Hinshaw, “Darwinian Evolution and Social History”, in Journal of Social History, volume 45, number 1

Forms of gracilized

comparativemore gracilized
superlativemost gracilized

Questions about gracilized

What does gracilized mean?
Gracilized means exhibiting a reduction in bone mass as the result of evolution.
What is gracilized the simple past and past participle of?
Gracilized is the simple past and past participle of gracilize.
What part of speech is gracilized?
Gracilized is an adjective.

Words near gracilized in the dictionary

  1. gracilisuchids
  2. gracilities
  3. gracility
  4. gracilization
  5. gracilize
  6. gracilized
  7. gracilizes
  8. gracilizing
  9. gracillariid
  10. gracillariids
  11. gracillarioid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gracilized (page history and authors); gracilize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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