generalize

Verbs

  • (v) draw from specific cases for more general cases extrapolate, generalise, infer,
  • (v) speak or write in generalities generalise,
  • (v) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
    • They popularized coffee in Washington State
    • Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors
    popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize, generalise,
  • (v) become systemic and spread throughout the body
    • this kind of infection generalizes throughout the immune system
    generalise,

Synonyms

extrapolate generalise infer popularise popularize vulgarise vulgarize

Antonyms

particularise particularize specialise specialize specify

Words of close approximity

generalise generalist generality
generalized generalized anxiety disorder generalized epilepsy generalized seizure