Synonyms of classifying

classifying

verb

present participle of classify

1

as in ranking

to arrange or assign according to type

classify the baseball cards in your collection on the basis of rarity

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

2

as in organizing

to put into a particular arrangement

classify the information you got from the Internet by source

Synonyms & Similar Words

• organizing
• arranging
• ordering
• disposing
• systematizing
• codifying
• ranging
• placing
• arraying
• marshaling
• laying out
• drawing up
• grooming
• aligning
• displaying
• filing
• prioritizing
• lining
• sequencing
• straightening (up)
• making up
• queuing
• setting
• alphabetizing
• cuing
• tidying (up)
• lining up
• setting out
• emplacing
• sprucing (up)
• mapping (out)
• hierarchizing
• unscrambling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• upsetting
• disarranging
• disordering
• deranging
• messing (up)
• rumpling
• mussing (up)
• disarraying

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of classifying

The prosecution argued that the victims — who all belonged to the church and had since left — delayed reporting the incidents or classifying them as rape due to fear of retaliation for violating a Scientology rule against going to the police. — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 Oct. 2026

Operators fed Maven intelligence classifying the elementary school as an Iranian military facility, and the system, in turn, marked it as one of the priority targets for day one of the war. — Kylie Jones, Vox, 25 Oct. 2026

The distinction matters because responding to a signal and accurately classifying an unfamiliar chemical mixture are separate tasks. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026

The software generates a score from zero to 100, classifying a patient as low, intermediate, or high risk. — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026

Below, members of Forbes Technology Council share strategies for classifying large volumes of unstructured data while keeping the manual workload manageable. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Zema has proposed classifying major criminal factions as terrorist organizations. — Katie Angell Britannica Editors Oct. 2, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Oct. 2026

When a government committee chaired by Oppenheimer recommended strongly against the development of the H-bomb, the Atomic Energy Commission buried the report by classifying it as secret. — Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2026

The previous way of classifying heart attacks didn’t have enough nuance. — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 8 Sep. 2026