char·ac·ter (k r  k-tr)n. 1. The combination of qualities or features that distinguishes one person, group, or thing from another. See Synonyms at disposition. 2. A distinguishing feature or attribute, as of an individual, group, or category. See Synonyms at quality. 3. Genetics A structure, function, or attribute determined by a gene or group of genes. 4. Moral or ethical strength. 5. A description of a person's attributes, traits, or abilities. 6. A formal written statement as to competency and dependability, given by an employer to a former employee; a recommendation. 7. Public estimation of someone; reputation: personal attacks that damaged her character. 8. Status or role; capacity: in his character as the father. 9. a. A notable or well-known person; a personage. b. A person, especially one who is peculiar or eccentric: a shady character; catcalls from some character in the back row. 10. a. A person portrayed in an artistic piece, such as a drama or novel. b. Characterization in fiction or drama: a script that is weak in plot but strong in character. 11. A mark or symbol used in a writing system. 12. Computer Science a. One of a set of symbols, such as letters or numbers, that are arranged to express information. b. The numerical code representing such a character. 13. A style of printing or writing. 14. A symbol used in secret writing; a cipher or code. adj. 1. Of or relating to one's character. 2. a. Specializing in the interpretation of often minor roles that emphasize fixed personality traits or specific physical characteristics: a character actor. b. Of or relating to the interpretation of such roles by an actor: the character part of the hero's devoted mother. 3. Dedicated to the portrayal of a person with regard to distinguishing psychological or physical features: a character sketch. 4. Law Of or relating to a person who gives testimony as to the moral and ethical reputation or behavior of one engaged in a lawsuit: a character witness. tr.v. charac·tered, charac·ter·ing, charac·ters Archaic Idioms: 1. To write, print, engrave, or inscribe. 2. To portray or describe. in character Consistent with someone's general character or behavior: behavior that was totally in character. out of character Inconsistent with someone's general character or behavior: a response so much out of character that it amazed me. [Middle English carecter, distinctive mark, imprint on the soul, from Old French caractere, from Latin charact  r, from Greek kharaktr, from kharassein, to inscribe, from kharax, kharak-, pointed stick.]char ac·ter·less adj. |
character
Noun
1. the combination of qualities distinguishing an individual person, group of people, or place: the unique charm and character of this historic town
2. a distinguishing quality or characteristic: bodily movements of a deliberate character
3. reputation, esp. good reputation: a man of my Dad's character and standing in the community
4. an attractively unusual or interesting quality: the little town was full of life and character
5. a person represented in a play, film, or story
6. an unusual or amusing person: quite a character
7. Informal a person: a flamboyant character
8. a single letter, numeral, or symbol used in writing or printing
9. in or out of character typical or not typical of the apparent character of a person [Greek kharaktēr engraver's tool]
characterless adj
| character (krk-tr) 1. Genetics A structure, function, or attribute determined by a gene or a group of genes. 2. Computer Science A symbol, such as a letter, number, or punctuation mark, that occupies one byte of memory. See more at ASCII. |
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  character - an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"imaginary being, imaginary creature - a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction |
| 2. | character - a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something; "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands" attribute, dimension, property - a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished; "self-confidence is not an endearing property" texture - the essential quality of something; "the texture of Neapolitan life" | |
| 3. | character - the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; "education has for its object the formation of character"- Herbert Spencer trait - a distinguishing feature of your personal nature personality - the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual; "their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others" spirit - a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character thoughtfulness - the trait of thinking carefully before acting responsibleness, responsibility - a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct; "he holds a position of great responsibility" integrity - moral soundness; "he expects to find in us the common honesty and integrity of men of business"; "they admired his scrupulous professional integrity" | |
| 4. | character - an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona" personation, portrayal, characterization, enactment - acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture bit part, minor role - a small role heavy - a serious (or tragic) role in a play hero - the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem ingenue - the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play name part, title role - the role of the character after whom the play is named heroine - the main good female character in a work of fiction | |
| 5. |  character - a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case" | |
| 6. | character - good repute; "he is a man of character" reputation, repute - the state of being held in high esteem and honor | |
| 7. | character - a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability; "requests for character references are all too often answered evasively" good word, recommendation, testimonial - something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable | |
| 8. |  character - a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"printed symbol, written symbol - a written or printed symbol allograph - a variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme check character - a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission superscript, superior - a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character subscript, inferior - a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character ASCII character - any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers ligature - character consisting of two or more letters combined into one capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase, capital - one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters" lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small letter - the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case type - printed characters; "small type is hard to read" percent sign, percentage sign - a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100 diesis, double dagger, double obelisk - a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters" blank, space - a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet" phonetic symbol - a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound mathematical symbol - a character that is used to indicates a mathematical relation or operation rune, runic letter - any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages; "each rune had its own magical significance" pictograph - a graphic character used in picture writing ideogram, ideograph - a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it; "Chinese characters are ideograms" radical - a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram stenograph - a shorthand character | |
| 9. | character - (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes attribute - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity unit character - (genetics) a character inherited on an all-or-none basis and dependent on the presence of a single gene genetic science, genetics - the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms | |
| Verb | 1. | character - engrave or inscribe characters on |
character
noun 1. personality, nature, make-up, cast, constitution, bent, attributes, temper, temperament, complexion, disposition, individuality, marked traits
Translations
character [ˈkærɪktəʳ] n → carácter m; naturaleza, índole f;
a person of good character → una persona de buena reputación
character [ˈkærɪktəʳ] n → Charakter m;
(personality) → Persönlichkeit f;
(eccentric) → Original nt;
(letter) (also Comput) → Zeichen nt;
character [ˈkærɪktəʳ] n (gen), (COMPUT) → carattere m;
(in novel, film) → personaggio;
(eccentric) → originale m;
n character [ˈkӕrəktə]
1 the set of qualities that make someone or something different from others; type You can tell a man's character from his handwriting; Publicity of this character is not good for the firm. karakter شَخْصِيَّه нрав povaha, charakter egenskab; personlighed der Charakter χαρακτήρας carácter iseloom شخصیت؛ منش luonne caractère; genre תְכוּנָה प्रकार karakter, značajka jelleg watak skapgerð, lunderni carattere, genere 性格 성격, 타입 charakteris raksturs watak karakter (egen)art, natur, karakter charakter carácter fire; gen характер povaha značaj; vrsta karakter karaktär, natur, beskaffenhet คุณลักษณะเด่น kişilik, karakter 特徵 характер; тип کردار tính cách 特征
2 a set of qualities that are considered admirable in some way He showed great character in dealing with the danger. inbors صِفات، سَجايا характер charakter karakterstyrke die Persönlichkeit χαρακτήρας carácter iseloomukindlus سیرت luonteenlujuus caractère אוֹפִי चरित्र značajka jellem sifat skapfesta carattere 人格 인격 asmenybė, charakteris raksturīgas iezīmes; personība peribadi karaktersterkte karakterstyrke osobowość, charakter carácter caracter характер charakter značaj karakter [] karaktär คุณลักษณะที่น่ายกย่อง üstün bir özellik, takdir edilecek bir özellik 品質 характер بلند کردار ، خصوصیات nghị lực 品质
3 reputation They tried to damage his character. reputasie سُمْعَه، شُهْرَه реноме pověst rygte; ry; navn der Ruf φήμη, υπόληψη reputación maine اعتبار maine réputation שֵם טוֹב कीर्ति karakter, ličnost hírnév reputasi mannorð reputazione 評判 명성 reputacija reputācija nama baik reputatie rykte, ry, navn reputacja reputação reputaţie репутация povesť dober glas reputacija anseende, rykte ชื่อเสียง ün, şöhret, nam 名聲 репутація ساکھ ، شہرت thanh danh 名声
4 a person in a play, novel etc Rosencrantz is a minor character in Shakespeare's `Hamlet'. karakter شَخْصِيَّه رِوائِيَّه/ مَسرحيه действащо лице postava (ve hře) figur; skikkelse; person; rolle die Rolle πρόσωπο έργου personaje tegelaskuju شخصیت henkilö(hahmo) personnage דְמוּת किरदार, पात्र lice romana alak, személy tokoh persóna personaggio 登場人物 인물, 배역 personažas, veikėjas tēls; personāžs watak figuur, personage figur, skikkelse, person; rolle postać personagem personaj персонаж postava oseba (v igri) lik rollfigur, diktad person ตัวแสดง karakter 角色 образ, герой ڈرامے کا کردار nhân vật 角色
5 an odd or amusing person This fellow's quite a character! koddige kalant شَخْصٌ غَريبُ الأطْوار чешит podivín; číslo original die Persönlichkeit τύπος tipo, figura veidrik آدم عجیب و غریب tyyppi numéro טִיפּוּס पात्र ličnost személyiség, figura menyenangkan furðufugl, sérkennilegur personaggio; originale 変わり者 괴짜 tipas tips pelik type original dziwak personalidade personaj оригинал zvláštny človek čudak faca personlighet, lustig typ (kurre) คนที่มีนิสัยไม่เหมือนใคร ilginç kişi 怪人 оригінальна, ексцентрична людина عجیب آدمی người lập dị 怪人
6 a letter used in typing etc Some characters on this typewriter are broken. karakter حَرْفٌ هِجائي буква písmeno, znak type das Schriftzeichen χαρακτήρας (γράμμα) carácter trükimärk حرف؛ نشانه kirjain(merkki) caractère גוֹפָן चिह्न, अक्षर slovo betű, karakter huruf letur(gerð) carattere 文字 문자 rašmuo burts; rakstu zīme huruf letter (skrift)tegn znak carácter caracter; literă литера písmeno, znak črka slovo typ, tecken ตัวอักษรพิมพ์ดีด harf, karakter (打字用的)字母 буква ٹائپ کیا ہوا ایک لفظ ký tự （打字用的）字母
adj characterˈistic
(negativeuncharacteristic) typical (of a person etc) He spoke with characteristic shyness; That kind of behaviour is characteristic of him. kenmerkend مُمَيِّز характерен charakteristický, typický karakteristisk bezeichnend χαρακτηριστικός característico iseloomulik منش؛ مشخصه luonteenomainen typique מְאַפיֵין विशेष svojstven, značajan, karakterističan jellemző khas einkennandi, dæmigerður caratteristico, tipico 特有な 특유의 charakteringas, būdingas raksturīgs tipikal kenmerkend karakteristisk charakterystyczny característico tipic характерный charakteristický, typický značilen karakterističan karakteristisk, kännetecknande ลักษณะนิสัย kendine özgü, tipik 特有的 характерний امتیازی ، انفرادی cá tính 特有的
n
a typical quality It is one of his characteristics to be obstinate. eienskappe ميزَه، صِفَةٌ مُمَيِّزه отличителна черта vlastnost, charakteristický rys karaktertræk die Eigenschaft χαρακτηριστικό característica iseloomuomadus خصوصیت ominaispiirre caractéristique לְאַפייֵן विशिष्ट लक्षण značajka, karakteristika ismertetőjel ciri khas (persónu-/skapgerðar)einkenni caratteristica 特徴 특징 bruožas raksturīga pazīme sifat eigenschap karakteregenskap, trekk, kjennetegn cecha característica caracteristică характерная черта charakteristická črta značilnost karakteristika kännetecken, karaktärsdrag ลักษณะเฉพาะ özellik, hususiyet 特徵 характерна риса; особливість đặc điểm 特征
adv characteˈristically
kenmerkend بِصورَةٍ مُمَيِّزَه типично charakteristicky karakteristiskt bezeichnenderweise χαρακτηριστικά típicamente iseloomulikult بطور ویژه luonteenomaisesti typiquement אוֹפְייָנִי विशिष्टापूर्वक značajan, svojstven, karakterističan jellemző módon secara khas á dæmigerðan hátt tipicamente 特徴的に 독특하게 charakteringai, būdingai, tipiškai raksturīgi bersifat karakteristiek karakteristisk charakterystycznie tipicamente tipic; caracteristic характерно charakteristicky značilno karakteristično karakteristiskt, kännetecknande อย่างมีลักษณะพิเศษ kendine özgü olarak, tipik olarak 特有地 характерним чином خصوصیت một cách đặc trưng 特有地
v characterize, ˈcharacterise
1 to be the obvious feature of The giraffe is characterized by its long neck. kenmerk يُمَيِّزُ охарактеризирам vyznačovat se (čím) karakterisere; kendetegne kennzeichnen χαρακτηρίζω caracterizar iseloomulik olema ویژگی چیزی یا کسی بودن olla ominaista caractériser לְאַפייֵן विशिष्ट लक्षण karakterizirati jellemez berciri khas einkenna caratterizzare 特徴づける 특색을 이루다 išskirti būt raksturīgam; atšķirties mencirikan kenmerken karakterisere, kjennetegne, utmerke (seg) charakteryzować caracterizar a caracteriza отличать(ся) charakterizovať biti značilen karakterisati karakterisera, känneteckna แสดงลักษณะพิเศษ belirgin özelliği olmak 表示...的特性 відрізняти; служити характерною ознакою امتیازی وصف بیان کرنا tiêu biểu cho 表示...的特性
2 to describe (as) She characterized him as weak and indecisive. beskryf يَصِفُ описвам charakterizovat, popisovat beskrive; karakterisere beschreiben χαρακτηρίζω κπ. ως, περιγράφω describir iseloomustama شرح دادن؛ ترسیم کردن luonnehtia décrire לְתַאֵר चरित्रचित्रण karakterizirati, obilježiti svojstvima jellemez memerikan lÿsa definire ～の特徴を述べる 특성을 기술하다 charakterizuoti, apibūdinti raksturot menggambarkan sifat karakteriseren beskrive, karakterisere opisywać descrever a descrie характеризовать opísať označiti opisati beteckna พรรณนาถึงคุณสมบัติพิเศษ tanımlamak, nitelendirmek 描繪 характеризувати, зображати بیان کرنا mô tả 描绘性格
n characteriˈzation, ˌcharacteriˈsation
karakterisering وَصْف، تَصْوير، خَلْقُ الشَّخْصِيّاتالرِّوائِيّه أو المَسْرَحِيَّه характерстика charakteristika, podpis karakterisering die Charakterisierung χαρακτηρισμός caracterización iseloomustus توصیف luonnehdinta caracté- risation אִפיוּן דְמוּת चरित्रचित्रण karakterizacija jellemzés karakterisasi skapgerðarlÿsing caratterizzazione 特徴づけ 성격 묘사, 특성의 기술(記述) charakteristika, apibūdinimas raksturojums; raksturošana penyifatan karakterisering karakterskildring/-tegning, karakterisering charakterystyka caracterização caracterizare характеристика charakteristika označba karakterizacija karakterisering, karakteristik คุณสมบัติพิเศษ tanımlama, nitelendirme 特性 характеристика امتیازی خاصہ ہونا sự tiêu biểu 特性
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