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- [kar-ik-ter]
- /ˈkær ɪk tər/
- /ˈkærəktə(r)/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [kar-ik-ter]
- /ˈkær ɪk tər/
Definitions of character word
- countable noun character The character of a person or place consists of all the qualities they have that make them distinct from other people or places. 3
- singular noun character If something has a particular character, it has a particular quality. 3
- singular noun character You can use character to refer to the qualities that people from a particular place are believed to have. 3
- countable noun character You use character to say what kind of person someone is. For example, if you say that someone is a strange character, you mean they are strange. 3
- variable noun character Your character is your personality, especially how reliable and honest you are. If someone is of good character, they are reliable and honest. If they are of bad character, they are unreliable and dishonest. 3
- uncountable noun character If you say that someone has character, you mean that they have the ability to deal effectively with difficult, unpleasant, or dangerous situations. 3
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Origin of character
First appearance:
before 1275 One of the 13% oldest English words
1275-1325; < Latin < Greek charaktḗr graving tool, its mark, equivalent to charak- (base of charáttein to engrave) + -tēr agent suffix; replacing Middle English caractere < Middle French < Latin, as above
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Parts of speech for Character
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
character popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
character usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for character
noun character
- style — a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character: the baroque style; The style of the house was too austere for their liking.
- humor — hacker humour
- nature — has the X nature
- type — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
- kind — of a good or benevolent nature or disposition, as a person: a kind and loving person.
verb character
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- act out — If you act out an event which has happened, you copy the actions which took place and make them into a play.
- incarnated — embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form: a devil incarnate.
- imaged — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
adjective character
- characterless — If you describe something as characterless, you mean that it is dull and uninteresting.
- off-the-wall — markedly unconventional; bizarre; oddball: an unpredictable, off-the-wall personality.
- amorphous — Something that is amorphous has no clear shape or structure.
Antonyms for character
noun character
- unemployment — the state of being unemployed, especially involuntarily: Automation poses a threat of unemployment for many unskilled workers.
- regularity — usual; normal; customary: to put something in its regular place.
- normality — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- standard — something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
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