compartmentalise

1. 1.

   separate into isolated compartments or categories

   “You cannot compartmentalize your life like this!”

   Synonymscompartmentalizecut up

   Broaderseparate

Other forms of compartmentalise

past tense

compartmentalised·

present participle

compartmentalising·

third person

compartmentalises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about compartmentalise

What does compartmentalise mean?

compartmentalise means "separate into isolated compartments or categories".

How many syllables are in compartmentalise?

compartmentalise has 5 syllables: com-part-men-ta-lise. The stress falls on "men".

What is another word for compartmentalise?

Close synonyms include compartmentalize, cut up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is compartmentalise a common word?

compartmentalise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.