Idolized

Definition: Idolized

Idolized

Adjective

1. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god); "adored grandchildren"; "an idolized wife".

Date "idolized" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Synonyms: Idolized

Synonyms: adored (adj), idolised (adj), worshipped(a) (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Idolized

English words defined with "idolized": adored ♦ idolised ♦ worshipped. (references)

"Idolized" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 64.71% of the time. "Idolized" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	64.71%	11	106,044
Lexical Verb (past participle)	29.41%	5	157,705
Adjective (general or positive)	5.88%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	17	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "idolized"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		过度崇拜 (idolize, Idolizing). (various references)

German		vergötterte (deified), umschwärmte. (various references)

Pig Latin		idolizeday.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Idolized" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Edilizie, idolise, lipolysed. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "idolized" (pronounced ī"dulī'zd)
6	-d u l ī' z d	scandalized, vandalized.
5	-u l ī' z d	analyzed, annualized, brutalized, capitalized, caramelized, catalyzed, centralized, civilized, collateralized, commercialized, criminalized, crystallized, decentralized, demobilized, demoralized, denationalized, departmentalized, destabilized, editorialized, equalized, federalized, fertilized, fictionalized, finalized, formalized, fossilized, generalized, globalized, hospitalized, hydrolyzed, idealized, immobilized, industrialized, internalized, legalized, liberalized, localized, marginalized, materialized, memorialized, mobilized, monopolized, nationalized, naturalized, neutralized, normalized, paralyzed, penalized, personalized, professionalized, radicalized, rationalized, recapitalized, regionalized, revitalized, serialized, socialized, specialized, stabilized, sterilized, symbolized, tantalized, trivialized, undercapitalized, underutilized, unrealized, utilized, visualized.
4	-l ī' z d	creolized, realized, stylized.
3	-ī' z d	accessorized, advertised, agonized, aluminized, amortized, anglicized, antagonized, apologized, authorized, balkanized, burglarized, capsized, carbonized, categorized, characterized, circumcised, collectivized, colonized, colorized, compromised, computerized, containerized, criticized, customized, demilitarized, democratized, demonized, denuclearized, depressurized, deputized, desensitized, digitized, disenfranchised, disorganized, downsized, dramatized, emphasized, energized, enfranchised, epitomized, eulogized, excised, exercised, familiarized, fantasized, galvanized, harmonized, hellenized, heroized, homogenized, humanized, hypnotized, hypothesized, immunized, improvised, ironized, itemized, jeopardized, legitimized, lionized, magnetized, maximized, mechanized, memorized, mesmerized, metastasized, midsized, militarized, miniaturized, minimized, mischaracterized, modernized, motorized, nonunionized, organized, ostracized, outsized, oxidized, pasteurized, patronized, plagiarized, polarized, politicized, polymerized, popularized, pressurized, prioritized, privatized, proselytized, publicized, pulverized, randomized, reauthorized, recognized, reorganized, revolutionized, romanticized, rubberized, sanitized, scrutinized, securitized, sensitized, standardized, stigmatized, subsidized, summarized, supervised, sympathized, synchronized, synthesized, televised, terrorized, theorized, traumatized, unamortized, unauthorized, undersized, unexercised, unionized, unorganized, unrecognized, unsubsidized, unsupervised, urbanized, vaporized, westernized, winterized.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-i-l-o-z"
	-1 letter: idolize, iodized.
	-2 letters: dildoe, doiled, iodide, iodize.
	-3 letters: didie, dildo, diode, doled, dozed, idled, iodid, oiled, oldie.
	-4 letters: deil, deli, dido, died, diel, diol, dole, doze, eddo, idle, idol, lido, lied, lode.
	-5 letters: del, did, die, doe, dol, eld, led, lei, lez, lid, lie, odd, ode, oil, old, ole, zed.
	Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-i-l-o-z"
	+2 letters: diabolized.
	+3 letters: demobilized, dolomitized, ideologized.
	+4 letters: diagonalized.
	+5 letters: depoliticized, editorialized, overidealized.
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