sized

English

Etymology

size +‎ -ed

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.

Hyponyms

Hyponyms of sized

car-sized
Earth-sized
fair-sized

large-sized
medium-sized

piano-sized
refrigerator-sized

small-sized
Texas-sized

Verb

sized

simple past tense and past participle of size

See also

sized up

Anagrams

zeids

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