organized

English

Alternative forms

• organised (British English)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹɡənaɪzd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːɡənaɪzd/

• Audio (General American):

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• Hyphenation: or‧gan‧ized

Adjective

organized (comparative more organized, superlative most organized)

1. (of things or settings) Having been organized; in good order.

   Antonyms: disorganized, cluttered, disarrayed, messy, chaotic

   Your desk is so organized!

2. (of a person) Characterized by efficient organization.

   Antonyms: disorganized, messy

   Your desk is so neat and tidy — I've never met someone so organized before!

3. Unionized.

   Synonym: unionized

   Antonyms: unorganized, ununionized

   • 1852, Mary Edgewood Lazarus, Love Vs. Marriage: Part 1, page 292:

     If young persons of both sexes were brought together in the honest practical relations of organized labor, we should see no more of these fond nympholepsies

Derived terms

• disorganized
• hyperorganized
• inorganized
• malorganized
• nonorganized
• organized baseball
• organizedly
• organized religion
• preorganized
• semiorganized
• superorganized
• underorganized
• unorganized

Translations

characterised by efficient organization

Armenian: կազմակերպված (hy) (kazmakerpvac) Azerbaijani: mütəşəkkil Catalan: organitzat (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: organizovaný (cs) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: järjestelmällinen (fi) French: organisé (fr) Galician: organizado German: ordentlich (de) Greek: οργανωμένος (el) (organoménos) Gujarati: વ્યવસ્થિત (vyavasthit) Hindi: व्यवस्थित (hi) (vyavasthit) Italian: organizzato (it) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Latin: ordinātus Maori: nahanaha Persian: ارگانیزه (fa) (orgânize) Polish: zorganizowany (pl), rozgarnięty, ogarnięty, przytomny (pl), kumaty (pl) Portuguese: organizado (pt), arrumado (pt) Romanian: organizat (ro) Russian: организованный (ru) (organizovannyj) Spanish: organizado (es) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: organize (tr)

Verb

organized

1. simple past and past participle of organize

Derived terms

• organized crime

Anagrams

• dragonize