sized

American

[sahyzd] / saɪzd /

adjective

having size as specified (often used in combination).

middle-sized.

sized British

/ saɪzd /

adjective

of a specified size

medium-sized

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Etymology

Origin of sized

First recorded in 1575–85; size ¹ + -ed ³

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sized

There are several jokey videos depicting police chasing human sized cats, and Scottish drag performer Ellie Diamond has issued a video declaring that she is not the Cat in the Hat killer.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

Many retirees take systematic monthly distributions sized to cover the year’s RMD, and if that’s you and you’re eight months in, roughly two-thirds of your RMD is already gone.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

Funisia was a stationary, tube-shaped organism that lived in clusters of similarly sized individuals.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

I would wander in with my perfectly sized tote, allow whatever charmed me to determine dinner and wait for the ingredients to organize themselves.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

Molly got rid of boxes that were oddly sized or misshapen or in bad shape and replaced them with new thick cardboard boxes, uniformly rectangular.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

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