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organized

adjectiveverbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɔːɡənaɪzd//
  • United States//ˈɔɹɡənaɪzd//

Of things or settings, having been organized; in good order.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of things or settings, having been organized; in good order.

    Your desk is so organized!

  2. 2

    Of a person, characterized by efficient organization.

    Your desk is so neat and tidy — I've never met someone so organized before!

  3. 3

    Unionized.

    If young persons of both sexes were brought together in the honest practical relations of organized labor, we should see no more of these fond nympholepsies

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of organizesimple past and past participle of organize

adjective

  1. 1

    rareOf a musical instrument, having keys (like an organ); keyed.

    The original concert advertisement including his name mentions “An Aria with accompaniment of organized trumpet, sung by Mlle. Gassmann, the words of which are by Herr Lieutenant [Giovanni de] v. Gamerra, poet of the Imperial Royal Court Theatre, the music by Herr Franz Xaver Süssmayer [sic], Kapellmeister of the I.R. Court Theatre.”

Etymology

From organ (“musical instrument”) + -ize, calque of German organisierte/organisirte.

Forms

comparative
more organized
superlative
most organized
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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