Synonyms of pigeonholing

pigeonholing

verb

present participle of pigeonhole

as in categorizing

disapproving to unfairly think of or describe (someone or something) as belonging to only a certain category

She likes to perform different types of music because she doesn't want to be pigeonholed.

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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