Synonyms of categorizing

categorizing

verb

present participle of categorize

as in classifying

to arrange or assign according to type

categorized the questions by topic

Synonyms & Similar Words

• classifying
• ranking
• distinguishing
• grouping
• relegating
• sorting
• separating
• distributing
• grading
• typing
• placing
• identifying
• organizing
• classing
• filing
• listing
• codifying
• recognizing
• digesting
• ranging
• assorting
• pegging
• compartmentalizing
• referring
• cataloging
• alphabetizing
• ordering
• systematizing
• compartmenting
• disposing
• breaking down
• culling
• indexing
• arraying
• shelving
• sifting
• reclassifying
• marshaling
• pigeonholing
• drawing up
• sieving
• winnowing
• regrouping
• clustering
• clumping
• screening
• recategorizing
• setting
• subcategorizing
• colligating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lumping
• scrambling
• confusing
• mixing (up)
• jumbling
• disarranging
• misclassifying
• mistyping
• missorting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of categorizing

To streamline the private-public partnership and ensure the most rapid response to the biggest risks, Anthropic said the AI industry’s goal should be categorizing risks to ensure proper interventions both internally and from the government. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 1 July 2026

Nearly four-fifths of respondents said that gas prices present some sort of strain, with 34% categorizing it as a major strain and 44% calling it a minor strain. — Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026

The agency stopped categorizing the causes of death in March of last year. — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

Witter is Desert Vintage’s longest-serving employee, save for its current owners, Roberto Cowan and Salima Boufelfel, and is in charge of categorizing and dating the rare and glorious treasures that come through the shop’s doors. — Max Berlinger, Vogue, 11 June 2026

The reforms also open up the possibility of categorizing gangs and drug cartels as terrorist groups. — CBS News, 3 June 2026

Traditional budgeting apps often require a lot more manual input on your part, such as entering your income and categorizing your expenses. — Rebecca Safier, USA Today, 1 June 2026

By not categorizing the ISS as a monetizable enterprise, an immense amount of enterprise value remains latent and inaccessible to the broader market. — Tejpaul Bhatia, Fortune, 20 May 2026

Despite the proximity, the space rock poses no danger, according to Richard Binzel, a professor of planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the inventor of the Torino Scale, a tool for categorizing potential collisions of space objects with Earth. — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 18 May 2026