themed
- 1Designed or arranged around a particular subject or idea, so that its parts fit together as a whole.
Like a museum exhibit where every display ties back to one chosen subject.
The restaurant's themed menu shifts to match each season's holiday.
Their wedding was elaborately themed around vintage Hollywood glamour.
Note
Most often met as the second half of a compound: a pirate-themed party, a Christmas-themed window, a space-themed sleepover. Before a noun, the compound takes a hyphen. Built from the noun theme plus -ed, it is still gradable, so one party can be more themed than another. That sets it apart from the verb's past participle, which reports that someone did the theming.
The museum hosted a space-themed sleepover for children.
Every float in the parade was Halloween-themed.
- 2Simple past and past participle of theme.
The designers themed each floor after a different decade.
The festival was themed around local folklore this year.
Note
A regular verb, so one spelling serves both the past tense and the participle: they themed the room, and the room was themed. Because theme takes a direct object, the passive is where it is most at home, and there it shades into the adjective. Software gives it a narrower job. An app themed in dark colors has had its look and layout changed, not its subject.
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themed is a form of theme
theme, verb: As a verb, to plan or design something, such as a party, room or book, so that all of it follows a single chosen subject or idea. Full entry
- Spelling
- theme → themed: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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Origin
Formed from the word "theme" combined with the suffix "-ed".