sized

English

Etymology

size +‎ -ed

Adjective

sized (not comparable)

1. 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^[1], 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.

Hyponyms

• car-sized
• Earth-sized
• fair-sized
• large-sized
• medium-sized
• midsized
• moon-sized
• piano-sized
• planet-sized
• refrigerator-sized
• small-sized
• Texas-sized

 

Verb

sized

1. simple past and past participle of size

See also

• sized up

Anagrams

• seiz'd, zeids