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stylise

stylise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of stylize.

Meaning of stylize

Verb

stylize (third-person singular simple present stylizes, present participle stylizing, simple past and past participle stylized)

  1. (transitive) To represent (someone or something) in a particular style.
  2. (transitive) To represent (someone or something) abstractly in a conventional manner, commonly fancifully symbolic, to identify a particular item, by omitting most of the detail that is not unique to the item in question.

Forms of stylise

third-person singular presentstylises
present participlestylising
past participlestylised
paststylised

Origin of stylise

From style + -ise.

Questions about stylise

What is stylise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Stylise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of stylize.

Words near stylise in the dictionary

  1. stylinodontids
  2. styliolinid
  3. stylion
  4. stylisation
  5. stylisations
  6. stylise
  7. stylised
  8. styliser
  9. stylisers
  10. stylises
  11. stylish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stylise (page history and authors); stylize (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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