theorize
/ˈθɪə.ɹaɪz/US/ˈθɪɹ.aɪz/
theorize verb: to formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject.
Verb
theorize (third-person singular simple present theorizes, present participle theorizing, simple past and past participle theorized)
- To formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject.
- Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten...2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257
- There are processes of collective individuation that produce the transindividual in the course of a process of transindividuation (which Simondon does not theorize as such).2018, Bernard Stiegler, Automatic Society: The Future of Work, page 152
- To speculate.
theorize meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam and Kannada
theorize in Tamil
- கோட்பாடு உருவாக்கு
theorize in Marathi
- formulate theories
- सिद्धांत मांडणे siddhānta māṇḍṇe, उपपत्ती लावणे upapattī lāvṇe
theorize in Malayalam
- conjecture, speculate, hypothesize
- സിദ്ധാന്തവൽക്കരിക്കുക, സിദ്ധാന്തീകരിക്കുക, തത്ത്വരൂപത്തിലാക്കുക, സിദ്ധാന്തപരമാക്കുക, ഉപപത്തി രചിക്കുക, സെെദ്ധാന്തികമായി ഊഹാപോഹം നടത്തുക
theorize in Kannada
- ಹೇಳ್ಮೆಯೊಡ್ಡು
Examples of theorize in a sentence
- Autistic rhetoric scholar Melanie Yergeau theorizes neuroqueer as a kind of “asocially perverse” motioning.2021, Ryan Lee Cartwright, Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 188:
- The homeowner theorized that the intruders saw that the house was up for sale and targeted it for their rager.2022 June 22, Selim Algar, “Incensed owner of $8M Florida mansion ransacked by teens wants them prosecuted”, in New York Post, New York...
Forms of theorize
| third-person singular present | theorizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | theorizing |
| past participle | theorized |
| past | theorized |
| alternative UK | theorise |
Origin of theorize
From theory + -ize. First use appears c. 1599 in the text A pil to purge melancholie.
Words formed from theorize
Questions about theorize
- What does theorize mean?
- Theorize means to formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject.
- What is theorize in Tamil?
- Theorize in Tamil is கோட்பாடு உருவாக்கு. See Theorize meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use theorize in a sentence?
- Autistic rhetoric scholar Melanie Yergeau theorizes neuroqueer as a kind of “asocially perverse” motioning.
- What part of speech is theorize?
- Theorize is a verb.
- How do you pronounce theorize?
- Theorize is pronounced /ˈθɪə.ɹaɪz/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of theorize?
- The past tense of theorize is theorized.
Words near theorize in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: theorize (page history and authors); theorize (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); theorize (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); theorize (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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