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1. a. : to place in or as if in the pigeonhole of a desk. b. : to lay aside : shelve. his reports continued to be pigeonholed and his advice not taken Walter Mills. 2. : to assign to an often restrictive category : classify. pigeonholer.
to have an often unfair idea of what type someone or something is: He is a film producer who can't be conveniently pigeonholed. to put something away or leave it until a later time: Consultants found the experience frustrating - their reports were only partly implemented, or, worse still, just pigeonholed.
verb [ T ] uk / ˈpɪdʒ.ən.həʊl / us / ˈpɪdʒ.ən.hoʊl / usually disapproving. to have an often unfair idea of what type someone or something is: He is a film producer who can't be conveniently pigeonholed. to put something away or leave it until a later time:
Synonyms for PIGEONHOLED: categorized, classified, relegated, separated, identified, grouped, distinguished, shelved; Antonyms of PIGEONHOLED: lumped, confused, scrambled, mixed (up), jumbled, disarranged, misclassified, mistyped.
Pigeonhole definition: one of a series of small, open compartments, as in a desk, cabinet, or the like, used for filing or sorting papers, letters, etc.. See examples of PIGEONHOLE used in a sentence.
noun. 1. a small recess or hole for pigeons to nest in, usually in a compartmented structure. 2. a small, open compartment, as in a desk, for filing papers. verb transitive Word forms: ˈpigeonˌholed or ˈpigeonˌholing. 3. to put in the pigeonhole of a desk, etc. 4.
to have an often unfair idea of what type someone or something is: He is a film producer who can't be conveniently pigeonholed. to put something away or leave it until a later time: Consultants found the experience frustrating - their reports were only partly implemented, or, worse still, just pigeonholed.
1. one of a series of small, open compartments in a desk, cabinet, or the like, used for filing papers, letters, etc. 2. a hole or recess, or one of a series of recesses, for pigeons to nest in. v.t. 3. to assign to a definite place in an orderly system. 4. to put aside for the present; defer.
A pigeonhole is a small nesting area for a pigeon, or a similarly cozy compartment or alcove. If you feel like you're stuck in a restrictive category — only thought of as someone's sister, for example — that's another kind of pigeonhole.
pigeonhole. to decide that somebody/something belongs to a particular group or type without thinking deeply enough about it and considering what other qualities they might have synonym categorize, label. pigeonhole somebody/something Don't let them pigeonhole you.
