COUNTED Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

counted

verb

past tense of count

as in told

to find the sum of (a collection of things) by noting each one as it is being added count the baseball gloves in the storage locker to see if there are enough to go around

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Relevance

as in mattered

to be of importance punctuality and a neat appearance count during a job interview

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as in relied

to place reliance or trust I'm counting on you to show up tomorrow to help me move

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as in considered

to think of in a particular way I'm not sure I'd count that as a serious effort

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Recent Examples of counted The change allowed the parents to successfully argue that the trauma over their son's death counted as a disability that would exempt them from the punitive damages cap. — Reuters, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2026 Venture capital has a specific reason to care; Crunchbase counted $300 billion of global venture investment in the first quarter of 2026, with four AI rounds accounting for 65% of it. — Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026 One person in the audience counted seven bidders and guessed that anyone serious about winning would have been advised to go way, way above the estimate. — Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 21 Aug. 2026 Sarah Dong and Joseph Briggs of Goldman Sachs looked at industries with high exposure to AI and then counted job openings in those industries listed on Indeed. — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026 New vote totals from the Alameda County Registrar of Voters indicate Wahab's lead over Bay Area Rapid Transit Director Melissa Hernandez has grown and is insurmountable with the remaining votes still needing to be counted. — Jose Fabian, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026 But the capital generated through religious obligation sits outside the way development finance is counted. — Alaa Murabit, STAT, 20 Aug. 2026 Standing along the Iron Horse Trail on a weekday in June, Obolenskiy counted numerous people commuting on e-bikes, possibly to and from work or school. — Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2026 Count Binface with the Count Binface Party speaks to the media where votes were being counted at The Edge on June 18, 2026 in Wigan, England. — Jenni Reid, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for counted

Verb

Dallas appellate attorney David Coale, who has handled appeals for decades, told CBS News Texas after the trial that Anthony's team could have several strong arguments over whether the trial was handled correctly.

— CBS Texas Staff, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Nearly an hour after Nolan was last seen, friends on one of the boats noticed its bilge pump had failed and water was rapidly filling the hull, Tyler Cox and Edward Paltzik, attorneys for the friends, told CNN.

— Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of told

Verb

Instead of one person carrying the invisible responsibility of keeping everything together, more members of the household could see what mattered and contribute to what happened next.

— Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026
Yet, none of that would have mattered if the music didn’t match, or exceed, the visuals.

— Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of mattered

Verb

He was thrown in the Andrean sectional game in baseball this last season, which is a monumental task, so he’s relied upon in multiple sports.

— Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026
Solutions to the vehicle-to-everything (V2X) problem have to date relied on new networking protocols built from scratch—only to discover chicken-and-egg problems, thorny standards wars, and real signal congestion challenges at scale.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of relied

Verb

Other planning engines run scenarios sequentially, in cycles measured in hours, which is why their AI can only report on what has already been computed rather than reasoning live, KetteQ said.

— Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 13 Aug. 2026
The new map is computed using the IQP eclipse computational method that accounts for an improved value for the eclipse solar radius as well as the exact shape of the moon and topography.

— Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of computed

Verb

Mathematicians weren’t able to make much progress; their best upper limit on the discrepancy, achieved in 1998, still depended strongly on the dimension of the problem.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026
Trades have long been negotiated through emails, phone calls and chatrooms, while liquidity discovery has depended on fragmented dealer outreach and manual reconciliation.

— Brian Bejile, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of depended

Verb

Keith was regarded as a true legend in the genre, and nonstop streams of many of his most popular tunes have helped the superstar posthumously hold on to a handful of Billboard charts, week after week after week.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Analysis Joveljic is regarded as one of the best finishers in MLS, and the Sounders desperately need finishing ability.

— Tom Bogert, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026