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adjective

Synonym Chooser

How is the word quality different from other nouns like it?

Some common synonyms of quality are attribute, character, and property. While all these words mean "an intelligible feature by which a thing may be identified," quality is a general term applicable to any trait or characteristic whether individual or generic.

material with a silky quality

When is it sensible to use attribute instead of quality?

The synonyms attribute and quality are sometimes interchangeable, but attribute implies a quality ascribed to a thing or a being.

the attributes of a military hero

When is character a more appropriate choice than quality?

The words character and quality can be used in similar contexts, but character applies to a peculiar and distinctive quality of a thing or a class.

remarks of an unseemly character

When could property be used to replace quality?

In some situations, the words property and quality are roughly equivalent. However, property implies a characteristic that belongs to a thing's essential nature and may be used to describe a type or species.

the property of not conducting heat

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of quality
Noun
Evolving Client Expectations: Understand how these technologies may change client priorities, service needs and quality benchmarks. Mit Somaiya, Sourcing Journal, 3 Mar. 2025 While the tech behemoth may lag in timing, it’s always led in quality. Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
Faced with these challenges, a regular business would likely lower costs (and potentially quality) or raise prices on the students who are ineligible for free or reduced meals. Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 12 Oct. 2024 But the question remains whether quality private schools, interested in making a profit, will have any reason to build new locations in South or West Phoenix, where most parents can’t pay tuition beyond their $7,000 voucher. Eli Hager, ProPublica, 12 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for quality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quality
Noun
  • Relatively high mortgage rates have been hurting the housing market.
    CBS News, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Government forecasters predict an anemic 0.3 percent growth rate this year.
    Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Prioritizing High-Potential, High-Risk Populations While the strategies – and rhetoric – vary, every Administration in modern history has embraced the goal of creating jobs that offer dignity and economic stability in order to shore up America’s economic position and maximizing our human capital.
    Maria Flynn, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The Trump administration has made the border a zone that is overtly hostile to human rights and displays utter disregard for the humanity and dignity of people on the move.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • While the speech shares many characteristics with a State of the Union address, this presentation is slightly different in nature.
    Alana Wise, NPR, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Yale researchers want to speak with Central Floridians affected by 1,4-dioxane The Florida Geological Survey also uncovered an insidious characteristic of this chemical combination: 1,1-DCE inhibits the natural degradation of 1,4-dioxane, allowing its spread.
    Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Embalmers had different recipes for preparing and preserving bodies depending on the era; the budget; the level of nobility and gender of the deceased; and the availability of ingredients such as plant resins, oils and other unguents that could preserve and perfume the remains.
    Sarah Everts, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
  • European salons were nobility inviting composers into their homes to write and play music.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • More Deebo Samuel news: 49ers Send Star WR Deebo Samuel to Commanders in Blockbuster Trade Samuel will take his talents to the nation's capital and look to take the Commanders to the next level after an excellent year for the young Washington team.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Alabama got 24 points from Mark Sears and had excellent defensive stretches but couldn’t finish.
    Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Bergoglio was consecrated into the priesthood as a Jesuit, a religious order explicitly averse to moving up within the ranks of the church hierarchy.
    Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
  • But, with the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces severely depleted, Olha wasn’t so sure.
    Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Volusion has a few interesting marketing features, like its Google integration.
    Robert Anderson, PCMAG, 27 Feb. 2025
  • As a result, the auricular muscles became weaker and are now considered a vestigial feature—an evolutionary leftover that’s no longer necessary but hasn’t completely disappeared.
    Clarissa Brincat, Popular Science, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Cosmo Jarvis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rosamund Pike and Anthony Hopkins were earlier announced for the movie that sees Ritchie return to the colorful, back-stabbing world of the British aristocracy.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
  • She was born into the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, the product of a narcissistic mother, who was a scion of the Guinness-brewing fortune, and an Etonian father, who was killed in wartime Burma, when Blackwood was thirteen.
    Negar Azimi, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024

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“Quality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quality. Accessed 7 Mar. 2025.

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