Antonyms for classify
ˈklæs əˌfaɪclas·si·fy

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. classifyverb

   Antonyms:
   declassify

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. classify

   Antonyms:
   confuse, crowd out, derange, disarrange, displace, disturb, jumble, mislay, misplace, remove, unsettle

   Synonyms:
   adjust, array, assort, dispose, group, order, place, put in order, put in place, set in order, sort

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. classify

   Antonyms:
   derange, confound, disorder, disorganize, intermix

   Synonyms:
   arrange, systematize, adjust, rank, class, tabulate, dispose, collocate, assort

Matched Categories

1. • Assign
   • Restrict

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.4 / 5 votes

1. classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separateverb

   arrange or order by classes or categories

   "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"

   Antonyms:
   declassify

   Synonyms:
   tell apart, distinguish, associate, single out, split up, shed light on, crystalise, differentiate, sieve, divide, crystalize, fall apart, part, crystallise, carve up, sort, severalize, consort, split, come apart, separate, correct, severalise, dissever, furcate, assort, affiliate, class, illuminate, clear, discriminate, discipline, branch, secern, screen out, elucidate, screen, crystallize, clear up, enlighten, relegate, disunite, straighten out, tell, break, sort out, ramify, fork, break up, secernate

2. classifyverb

   declare unavailable, as for security reasons

   "Classify these documents"

   Antonyms:
   declassify

   Synonyms:
   assort, relegate, sort, class, separate, sort out

3. relegate, classifyverb

   assign to a class or kind

   "How should algae be classified?"; "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms"

   Antonyms:
   declassify

   Synonyms:
   kick downstairs, bump, assort, pass on, bar, class, banish, demote, separate, sort, sort out, break, relegate, submit

How to use classify in a sentence?

1. Hillary Clinton:

   That's not what I heard Director Comey say … Director Comey said that my answers were truthful and what I've said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the emails.

2. Alejandro Gomez:

   He described it in a completely natural way ... I would say he actually seemed happy to have done this, he wants people to see his picture, to know his name ... I would obviously classify this person as a murderer, a serial killer.

3. Luis Elizondo:

   That fact is not something any government or institution should classify in order to keep secret from the people.

4. Douglas Gentile:

   Even though different researchers across the world may define the problem somewhat differently, or ask different questions in different countries with differently aged kids, we find almost the same results across the world the estimates perhaps vary somewhat, but they all seem to come out somewhere between about 4 and 10 percent : that's the amount of gamers I would classify as addicted.

5. Christopher McCurdy:

   The whole dietary supplement industry is regulated to some extent, but it’s not really enforced because they don’t have enough people to oversee it, i think it’s going to be interesting to see what happens in the larger picture around what we classify as food or what would classify as dietary supplements, and what type of regulatory pathways are going to move forward.

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