TAILOR Synonyms: 87 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

Definition of tailor

as in to adjust

to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation the stand-up comic refused to tailor his routine for network television

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The Brita collaboration, Ozener said, will allow Hello Klean to tailor filter media by region. — Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 19 Aug. 2026 The Galaxy Watch has a Running Coach that tailors a plan to your current fitness level. — Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 19 Aug. 2026

Noun

Hersey — reporting on a clerk, a tailor’s widow, two doctors, a priest, and a pastor — gave US readers their first sense of what the new superweapon did to human bodies. — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 6 Aug. 2026 His brother became a tailor in the Marais, which is what many Eastern European Jews did. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tailor

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tailor

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To make up the difference, the school adjusted its bell schedule, including adding time to class periods.

— Conor McGill, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
One way is by adjusting the draft for vessels going through the locks.

— Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of adjust

Noun

And in the future, Mimi’s hopes to partner with neighboring small businesses, hold classes for more advanced stitchers and even throw Bachelor watch parties.

— Julianna Chen, Dallas Morning News, 3 Feb. 2026
At the game in June, the Mets provided the group with event space where the knitters, crocheters, cross-stitchers, needle pointers, sewers and embroiderers could connect with each other.

— Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026

Definition of stitcher

Verb

For instance, organizations routinely apply these tools to localize regional marketing campaigns, update compliance documentation and adapt customer service knowledge bases, to name a few.

— Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026
During the day, the menu reclaims fry bread, a dish with a knotty history among Indigenous groups, as they were forced to adapt to US government rations when forcibly displaced from their homes.

— The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of adapt

Noun

In Chinese mythology, Zhinü, a weaver girl represented by the Vega star, falls in love with Niulang, a cowherd embodied by the Altair star.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
Directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, the movie stars Academy Award-winner Olivia Colman as a fisherwoman who tasks a basket weaver (Peter Dinklage) with making her a wicker husband (Skarsgård).

— Hannah Malach, InStyle, 30 July 2026

Definition of weaver

Verb

All of the windows—and even the kitchen island and the couple’s bed platform—conform to the same dimensions.

— Sean Santiago, Architectural Digest, 24 Aug. 2026
Joby has flown its first FAA-conforming aircraft and entered the final stage of type certification.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2026

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