Bulletized

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Arranged or presented as a list whose items are marked with bullet symbols ; having been changed so that the content appears in bullet points
2. Set out in a series of short points each marked with a bullet ; reformatted from ordinary prose into a list of bulleted items
3. Organized into bulleted entries for quick reading ; transformed from continuous text into points marked by bullet symbols

Etymology: "Bulletized" is the past form of "bulletize," which is built from "bullet" and the suffix "-ize," meaning to subject something to a process or to treat it in a particular way. The verb therefore means, roughly, to fire bullets at something or to riddle it with them, and "bulletized" describes a thing that has been struck by gunfire, often heavily. The base word "bullet" comes from French "boulette," a diminutive of "boule" meaning ball, which is why a bullet's shape is at the root of the name. The suffix "-ize" arrived in English through Latin and Greek, where it formed verbs expressing making or treating, so "bulletize" follows the same pattern as words like "computerize" or "hospitalize."