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orientated

orientated is the simple past and past participle of orientate.

orientated is the alternative form of oriented.

Meaning of orientate

Verb

orientate (third-person singular simple present orientates, present participle orientating, simple past and past participle orientated)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, intransitive) To face a given direction.
  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, reflexive) To determine one's position relative to the surroundings; to orient (oneself).
    • He[…]stood for a moment, orientating himself exactly in the light of his knowledge.1961, John le Carré, Call for the Dead
  3. To arrange in order; to dispose or place (a body) so as to show its relation to other bodies, or the relation of its parts among themselves.
    • The one preferred is to make the dominant forms first order, that is, orientated in such a way as to intersect both horizontal crystallographic axes.1848, James Dwight Dana, Manual of Mineralogy
  4. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, transitive) To position (something), to align relative to a given position.
    • Try to orientate your students towards the science subjects.
  5. (archaic) To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.

Meaning of oriented

Adjective

oriented (comparative more oriented, superlative most oriented)

  1. Having a specific orientation (positioning or direction).
    • During assembly, keep the tab oriented toward the slot that it will later enter.
  2. (often) Having had an orientation (an introduction to a topic or place).
    • They are now oriented with the main campus.
  3. In any of various technical senses, admitting or being equipped with a notion of handedness (i.e. of distinguishing clockwise and anticlockwise). See Orientability on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  4. (in-compounds) Having (something) as a primary concern or guiding principle; focused on (something).
    • a Marxist-oriented approach to economics
    Synonyms:
    focused

Forms of orientated

comparativemore orientated
superlativemost orientated

Words formed from orientated

Questions about orientated

What is orientated the simple past and past participle of?
Orientated is the simple past and past participle of orientate.

Words near orientated in the dictionary

  1. orientally
  2. Orientalogy
  3. orientals
  4. orientanol
  5. orientate
  6. orientated
  7. orientates
  8. orientating
  9. orientating response
  10. orientating responses
  11. orientation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orientated (page history and authors); orientate (page history and authors); oriented (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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