GRADED Synonyms: 92 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in oblique

running in a slanting direction a graded creek bed, with the creek's center depth being about three feet

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verb

past tense of grade

as in classified

to arrange or assign according to type grade these apples "extra fancy" and those "fancy"

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as in ranked

to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes believe it or not, that music grades pretty high with young teens

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Here’s a look at how every position graded out in the Falcons’ statement win. — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 25 Oct. 2026 Well, reboots are reboots, and thus are graded on a curve given the innate uphill battle to live up to all that came before. — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026 The cards had been sent from all over the country to PSA to be graded, a necessary step for collectors in authenticating their wares. — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026 Those key factors were evaluated using 31 metrics with each metric graded on a 100-point scale, with 100 representing the most favorable conditions for college students. — Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026 The cards, which Santa Ana police said were valued at approximately $963,000, were graded by PSA and were being shipped back to their owners. — Ryan Morik Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026 The cards belong to collectors from across the country who submitted them to the PSA to be authenticated and graded. — ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026 Brad Knox, a research associate professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin, and two coauthors looked at how OpenAI graded its agents in the July test that led to the Hugging Face attack. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026 The new tier of intermediate-sized banks would have a community development test, but not an investment and service metric that large banks are graded on. — Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026

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Adjective

Rookie Cameron Carr is out and day-to-day because of a right oblique strain.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
The Lakers were without new guard Collin Sexton (calf) and first-round pick Cameron Carr (oblique), and swingman Jake LaRavia left the court limping in the fourth quarter.

— CBS News, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of oblique

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Now owned by the state of Bavaria, the ⁠Kehlsteinhaus was classified after the war as a historical monument recalling the Nazi period.

— Reuters, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2026
But China's latest regulations require people classified as Chinese tax residents to self-declare worldwide income to Beijing, Wang said.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of classified

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There are currently five teams from the SEC ranked despite having two losses.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
The extermination company Terminix ranked 50 cities in the United States with the worst rodent infestations and Sacramento is on the list.

— Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado Updated October 21, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026

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Gates open to a sloping, 700-foot-long driveway that passes by whimsical sculptures before arriving at a spacious cobblestone motor court.

— Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2026
There was a casual feel in Memorial Auditorium in the hour before game time, as children kicked a ball around on the auditorium’s sloping floor.

— Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026

Definition of sloping

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Two popular names with deep ties to the Pittsburgh region will be grouped this week at the PGA Tour's event in Bermuda.

— Mike Darnay, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Peters grouped India, Indonesia and Colombia among markets where Netflix still has considerable room to add subscribers and plans to maintain accessible entry-level prices.

— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 21 Oct. 2026

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Following their 1967 nuptials, Elvis and Priscilla spent their honeymoon in Palm Springs at William Krisel’s House of Tomorrow, a 4,695-square-foot modernist abode sectioned off into four circular spaces under a long, sloped roof.

— Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 18 Aug. 2026
Common areas feature self-operating lifts or sloped entryways.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2026

Definition of sloped

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This threshold describes the minimum separation at which two contact points can be distinguished.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026
The 10th Circuit, however, carefully distinguished Colorado’s program from the ones in those landmark rulings.

— Preston Green III, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026

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