oriented
To be oriented is to be positioned in a direction relative to something or someplace else, and it's often used with the prepositions "toward" or "away from." In order to find our way home, we should be oriented toward the north.
You can be oriented towards or away from all sorts of things, not only geographic ones. For example, if you like sports, you might be called sports-oriented. If politics is your thing, then you're politically oriented. For millennia, people have used the North Star to orient themselves, because it's always in the same place in the sky.
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adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination“the house had its large windows oriented toward the ocean view”“helping freshmen become oriented to college life”“the book is value- oriented throughout”
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synonyms:
orientated
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adjusted, familiarised, familiarized
having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment
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bound, destined
headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'
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directed
(often used in combination) having a specified direction
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headed
having a heading or course in a certain direction
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homeward, homeward-bound
oriented toward home
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minded
(used in combination) mentally oriented toward something specified
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orientating, orienting
positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually
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Antonyms:
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unoriented
not having position or goal definitely set or ascertained
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alienated, anomic, disoriented
socially disoriented
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confused, disoriented, lost
having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity
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disorienting
causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings
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adjusted, familiarised, familiarized
Vocabulary lists containing oriented
When eleven-year-old Tokunbo Marshall moves with her mother into a Harlem brownstone, she must adjust to an extended family that includes three new sisters who see everything in life as a possible project in their self-designed education.
After his grandmother buys him a lawnmower for his birthday, a 12-year-old boy turns his mowing earnings into a corporate empire and sponsorship of a heavyweight boxer named Joey Pow.
Separated from her father and brother by the Berlin Wall, Gerta comes up with a dangerous plan to reunite her family.
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