editorialize

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US/ˌed.əˈtɔːr.i.ə.laɪz/

verb

To introduce or insert personal opinions, judgments or subjective interpretations into news reporting or factual accounts where objectivity is expected.

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editorialise
OriginEnglish editorial ← Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? ← Medieval Latin ēditor →
RareFirst used mid-19th c.Scrabble 22
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Meanings

verbeditorialize (third-person singular simple present editorializes, present participle editorializing, simple past and past participle editorialized)

present singular third person editorializes · participle present editorializing · participle past editorialized · past editorialized · alternative UK editorialise

  1. intransitivejournalismTo introduce or insert personal opinions, judgments or subjective interpretations into news reporting or factual accounts where objectivity is expected.First known use mid-19th c.

    Jerry Falwell's right-wing fundamentalist publication "Moral Majority Inc." editorialized that AIDS was God's "deserved punishments" against homosexuals.

    2007 May 26, Leslie Feinberg, “Care & prevention, not repression”, in Workers World

Synonyms & antonyms

verbinsert personal opinions into an objective statement

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editorialise
Broader
opinespeak upspeak out

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
  3. Proto-Italic*eks
  4. Latinex
  5. Latinex-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*deh₃-redup.
  7. Proto-Indo-European*dédeh₃ti
  8. Proto-Italic*didō
  9. Latindō
  10. Latinēdō
  11. Medieval Latinēditor
  12. Englisheditor
  13. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  14. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  15. Englisheditorial
  16. Englisheditorialize

From editorial + -ize.

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Translations

Finnish ottaa kantaa
  • ottaa kantaato express one's opinion as if in an editorial
Polish przedstawiać opinię, przedstawić opinię
  • przedstawiać opinięto express one's opinion as if in an editorial
  • przedstawić opinięto express one's opinion as if in an editorial
Romanian editorializa
  • editorializato express one's opinion as if in an editorial
Spanish editorializar
  • editorializarto express one's opinion as if in an editorial
Cite this entry
APA

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MLA

“editorialize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/editorialize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “editorialize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/editorialize.

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