suburbanized

1. 1.

   surrounded by many suburbs

   “a highly suburbanized city”

   Synonymssuburbanised

   Similardecentralized

Questions about suburbanized

What does suburbanized mean?

suburbanized means "surrounded by many suburbs".

How many syllables are in suburbanized?

suburbanized has 4 syllables: subur-ba-ni-zed. The stress falls on "ba".

What is another word for suburbanized?

Close synonyms include suburbanised. 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 suburbanized a common word?

suburbanized 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.