INSCRIBED Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

inscribed

verb

past tense of inscribe

as in etched

to cut (as letters or designs) on a hard surface paid a jeweler to inscribe their names and wedding date on their wedding rings

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as in enrolled

to add (a person) to a list or roll as a participant or member inscribed the couple in the society of sustaining donors to the museum

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as in listed

to put (someone or something) on a list inscribed his name on the list of those to be executed

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Recent Examples of inscribed See historical objects and displays that shed light on an early road network still in use today, iron products made at pre-Revolutionary War iron works, and inscribed boundary stones marking estates owned by prominent Annapolitans. —

Staff Report, Baltimore Sun, 11 Mar. 2026 If our fates were inscribed in our genetics, why would anyone bother to maintain a skin-care routine, much less go to the trouble of jamming his tongue against the top of his mouth or whacking himself with a hammer? —

Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2026 To disassociate Braunau from Hitler’s legacy, the town government in 1989 placed a granite block from the Mauthausen concentration camp quarry before the building, inscribed with a memorial to the victims of fascism. —

Cary Lowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2026 It's always inscribed with cultural values and ideas. —

Gma Team, ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026 The names of every person who died in these two attacks are inscribed on the edge of the two reflecting pools. —

Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2026 Some of the earliest writings — including those inscribed on papyrus in Egypt and later in ancient Greece and Rome — contain recipes for making medicines. —

Ari Daniel, NPR, 19 Feb. 2026 The bands were inscribed with the couples’ initials and their wedding date. —

Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 17 Feb. 2026 As part of the proposal, Watkins gave Johnson a piece of wood inscribed with Taylor Swift lyrics. —

Andrew Greif, NBC news, 13 Feb. 2026

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Ambition, obsession, and a convenient humanity were enough, and Hoffman etched those turbulent emotions in every frame.

— Devan Coggan, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Mar. 2026
French explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac died nearly 180 years before he was etched into automotive history.

— James Raia, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026