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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Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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 That changed two weeks ago, when one death was finally counted, and again last week when a second was added to the agency's tally. — Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026 Of course, there’s still an election to be held, votes to be cast and ballots to be counted. — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026 With over 98% vote counted, Flavio Bolsonaro leads with over 47% of the vote and Lula holds second place with 44% of the vote. — Catherine Osborn, NPR, 4 Oct. 2026 This was a rare occasion in which the goalkeeper was not counted as a defensive player, and the official’s decision to stop the game for offside was correct. — Colin Millar, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026 The teams were made up of three players, but only the best two scores counted each day toward the team total. — ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026 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 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for counted

Verb

Last month, Democracy Docket surpassed 500,000 free email subscribers, the company first told Semafor, including 70,000 subscribers paying $10 a month or $120 per year.

— Max Tani, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026
China-Japan relations have come under heavy strain since Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told parliament in November last year that Japan could get militarily involved in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

— Anniek Bao,Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of told

Verb

Many off-grid communities have long relied on costly, polluting diesel generators.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
Obama himself relied heavily on the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force — passed by Congress under Bush — in his military campaign against Islamic State during his presidency.

— Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of relied

Verb

Moore, who is seeking reelection, is considered a potential presidential candidate in 2028.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
The fathers of the three friends, who are under 21 and considered minors under Mississippi law, filed the federal lawsuit Monday on their behalf.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 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

The bonds quickly fell as investors weighed challenges facing the economically sensitive movie and television businesses, including cord cutting and advertising pressure.

— Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
The calculus echoes comments from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang last month, who similarly argued that AI’s harms should be weighed against the benefits the technology can bring.

— Robert Hart, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of weighed

Verb

Sipahimalani noted that roughly half the stocks in the Russell 3000 were at least 20% below their June highs, highlighting the degree to which the market's resilience has depended on a small group of winners.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
As argued in a new piece by nonprofit Stand Up for Stand Up, this evolution of SiriusXM’s comedy programming has been harmful to working-class comics who depended on Raw Dog airplay and the royalties that came with it.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of depended

Verb

First released in celebration of its 250th anniversary, Creed has since extended Aventus into a full collection, and the original is generally regarded as one of the most influential men’s scents of the century.

— Robb Report, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026
Though the film is now regarded as one of the greatest works of the 21st century, when Del Toro set out to make it, the industry was not receptive to his ideas.

— Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026