customize

English

Alternative forms

• customise (chiefly UK)

Etymology

From custom +‎ -ize. First attested in 1934 in American English.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌs.tə.maɪ̯z/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.tə.mɑɪ̯z/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.tə.maɪ̯z/

Verb

customize (third-person singular simple present customizes, present participle customizing, simple past and past participle customized)

1. To build or alter according to personal preferences or specifications.
   • 2023 November 2, Danielle Wiener-Bronner, “Starbucks is leaning into its sugary concoctions to boost the business”, in CNN‎^[1], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 11 March 2026:

     High-priced lattes and customized drinks helped lift the coffee chain’s US sales in the quarter ending on October 1, the company said Thursday.

Derived terms

• customizability
• customizable
• customizer
• recustomize
• semicustomized
• uncustomized

Related terms

• consuetude
• costumal
• costume
• custom
• customary
• customer
• customization

Translations

alter according to preferences — see also personalize,‎ adapt,‎ tune

• Armenian: հարմարեցնել (hy) (harmarecʻnel)
• Bulgarian: изработвам по поръчка, приспособявам според потребностите си (prisposobjavam spored potrebnostite si)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 定制 (zh) (dìngzhì), 定做 (zh) (dìngzuò), 客製化 / 客制化 (kèzhìhuà), 自定義 / 自定义 (zìdìngyì)

• Czech: přizpůsobit pf
• Danish: skræddersy, specialbygge
• Esperanto: agordi
• Estonian: kohandama, isiksustama
• Finnish: mukauttaa (fi), muuttaa toiveiden mukaiseksi, kustomoida (fi) (colloquial)
• French: personnaliser (fr)
• Galician: personalizar
• German: speziell anfertigen, personalisieren (de), anpassen (de)
• Hungarian: testre szab (hu)
• Indonesian: menyesuaikan (id)
• Italian: customizzare (it), personalizzare (it)
• Japanese: カスタマイズする (kasutamaizu-suru)
• Lithuanian: pritaikymas individualiam vartojimui
• Māori: whakawhaiaro
• Persian: سفاریستن
• Polish: dostosowywać (pl) impf, personalizować impf
• Portuguese: personalizar (pt), customizar (pt)
• Russian: модифици́ровать (ru) (modificírovatʹ) (в соотве́тствии с тре́бованиями)
• Spanish: entallar (es), customizar (es), confeccionar a la medida, costumizar
• Swedish: anpassa (sv), skräddarsy (sv)
• Tagalog: ipasadya
• Yiddish: אינדיווידואַליזירן (individualizirn)

See also

• bespoke
• characterize
• differentiate
• individualize
• personalize
• tailor (verb)

Portuguese

Verb

customize

1. inflection of customizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative