sized
English
Adjective
sized (not comparable)
- Having a certain size. Usually used in combination with an adverb.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 16, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- The preposterous altruism too! […] Resist not evil. 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.
- 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
- An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
- A badly-sized pair of shoes.
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Hyponyms
- car-sized
- Earth-sized
- fair-sized
- large-sized
- medium-sized
- midsized
- piano-sized
- refrigerator-sized
- small-sized
- Texas-sized
See also
Anagrams
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