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) Characterised 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
• organized baseball
• organized religion
• 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)
• Galician: organizado
• German: ordentlich (de)
• Greek: οργανωμένος (el) (organoménos)
• Italian: organizzato (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: ordinātus
• Maori: nahanaha
• Persian: ارگانیزه (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