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sized

sized adjective: having a certain size. Usually used in combination with an adverb or a noun. Also the simple past and past participle of size.

Adjective

sized (not comparable)

  1. Having a certain size. Usually used in combination with an adverb or a noun.
    • A badly-sized pair of shoes.
    • A pea-sized creature.

Also used as

sized is also the simple past and past participle of size.

Examples of sized in a sentence

  • It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  • An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine.2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):

All 38 example sentences with sized

Origin of sized

From size + -ed.

Phrases with sized

Questions about sized

What does sized mean?
Sized means having a certain size. Usually used in combination with an adverb or a noun.
How do you use sized in a sentence?
It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
What part of speech is sized?
Sized is an adjective.

Words near sized in the dictionary

  1. size-ups
  2. sizeable
  3. sizeableness
  4. sizeably
  5. sizecode
  6. sized
  7. sized down
  8. sized up
  9. sizeism
  10. sizeist
  11. sizeists

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