Word.ws English Dictionary

systematise

systematise is the alternative form of systematize.

Meaning of systematize

Verb

systematize (third-person singular simple present systematizes, present participle systematizing, simple past and past participle systematized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US) To arrange into a systematic order; to make systematic; to organise as a system.
    • And it will be observed, that the intermediate kinds now, for the first time, systematized, are the most refined, and more closely resemble those which constitute the beauty of pictorial colouring.1845, David Ramsay Hay, The Principles of Beauty in Colouring Systematized, William Blackwood and Sons, page 48
    Synonyms:
    systemize

Forms of systematise

third-person singular presentsystematises
present participlesystematising
past participlesystematised
pastsystematised

Words formed from systematise

Questions about systematise

What is systematise the alternative form of?
Systematise is the alternative form of systematize.

Words near systematise in the dictionary

  1. systematicks
  2. systematicness
  3. systematics
  4. systematisation
  5. systematisations
  6. systematise
  7. systematised
  8. systematiser
  9. systematisers
  10. systematises
  11. systematising

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: systematise (page history and authors); systematize (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “systematise.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/systematise. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.