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 With these openings, Febal Casa now counts 283 monobrand stores, including 200 in Italy and 83 abroad, a sharp increase from November 2024, when the firm counted 217 monobrand stores, of which 36 were abroad. — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026 The French bishops conference counted 21,386 adult and adolescent baptisms at Easter this year. — Chris Livesay, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026 In 2021, the Association of National Advertisers counted 39 media KPIs in use among its members, and found only five ranking in the top dozen for both importance and actual use. — Tony Gonzalez, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026 Nine live roaches were counted, six in the gasket of a broken refrigerator still on the cookline and one on the cookline. — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026 Early in the pandemic, some federal and state officials said that anyone who died with Covid was being counted. — Jess Steier, STAT, 25 Sep. 2026 Holafly’s analysis counted 897 literary tours in Rome (the highest on the list), 326 bookstores, and 87 libraries, including Biblioteca Angelica, one of the oldest public libraries in the world. — Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2026 Those authorities — not USPS —determine who qualifies to receive a ballot, what appears on it, when it was printed and mailed, how voters can return it, how signatures are verified and when the ballot is counted. — Lee Moak, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026 In 2022, for example, ballots from some villages weren't fully counted due to mail delays. — ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026

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Verb

Bibb County Sheriff David Davis said at a press conference that local high school students congregated at the skate park at Carolyn Crayton Park late Saturday night after being told to leave the Airbnb where the party was supposed to be held.

— Carter Schroppe, The Washington Examiner, 28 Sep. 2026
She had been told that Golden Collision was a good place to have work done.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of told

Verb

That replaced only a fraction of the missing Gulf supply, but every barrel mattered in a tightening market.

— RICHARD HAASS, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2026
In the context of Texas, these differences might not have mattered, since the Jews, like other citizens of the fast-growing state, were adept at absorbing immigrants.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of mattered

Verb

Initiatives like Project Hiu demonstrate the importance of repurposing the skills and knowledge of those who relied on hunting wildlife into protection efforts, while offering alternate economic opportunities through tourism and conservation.

— Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2026
Recent presidents, however, have generally divested individual stocks or relied on blind trusts or diversified funds to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of relied

Verb

First ring, first row of the Koch Theater is widely considered to have the best seats in the house.

— Fiorella Valdesolo, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2026
It is intended to help locate missing Black people who are considered endangered because of their age or the suspicious circumstances surrounding their disappearance.

— Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of considered

Verb

Every decision—what to recommend, what to rank, what to suppress—is computed for that one customer at that one moment.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026
The study also computed the pre-tax and after-tax returns for overlapping 30-year periods and found that the tax drag varied over time.

— Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of computed

Verb

Voting begins in Kansas City As the Supreme Court weighed the challenge, the first ballots have already been cast.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2026
The shootings, coming weeks after the Israel-Hamas war began, rattled Burlington and the West Bank and spurred calls for hate-crime charges as jurors weighed motive and mental illness.

— Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of weighed

Verb

Radiologists have traditionally depended on their own expertise and eyesight to identify potentially cancerous findings.

— Oran Muduroglu, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
At the same time, as the Burke Museum notes, the low-lying forests of nut and beech trees the birds depended on were cleared for farmland as settlement spread west.

— Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of depended

Verb

Indeed, cooling is regarded as one of the major challengers for operators of orbital data centers, as there is no airflow in space to carry away heat.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2026
And France, South Korea and Brazil regarded as three of the strongest industry drivers in in the world.

— Callum McLennan, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026