generalise

1. 1.

   speak or write in generalities

   Synonymsgeneralize

   Broadertalk
2. 2.

   draw from specific cases for more general cases

   Synonymsgeneralizeextrapolateinfer

   Broaderreason

   Narrowerovergeneralizeuniversalize
3. 3.

   cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use

   “They popularized coffee in Washington State”

   “Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors”

   Synonymspopularizepopularisevulgarizevulgarisegeneralize

   Broadercirculate
4. 4.

   become systemic and spread throughout the body

   “this kind of infection generalizes throughout the immune system”

   Synonymsgeneralize

   Broaderspread

Other forms of generalise

past tense

generalised·

present participle

generalising·

third person

generalises·

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 generalise

What does generalise mean?

generalise means "speak or write in generalities". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in generalise?

generalise has 4 syllables: ge-ne-ra-lise. The stress falls on "ne".

What is another word for generalise?

Close synonyms include generalize, generalize, extrapolate, infer, popularize. 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 generalise a common word?

generalise 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.