Synonyms for portrait
ˈpɔr trɪt, -treɪt, ˈpoʊr-por·trait

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.7 / 14 votes

1. portraitnoun

   a print mode or selection specifying the rectangle to be printed on having the vertical sides longer than the horizontal sides.

   Antonyms:
   profile, landscape

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. portrayal, portraiture, portraitnoun

   a word picture of a person's appearance and character

   Synonyms:
   portraiture, characterization, depicting, depiction, delineation, portraying, portrayal, enactment, personation

2. portrait, portrayalnoun

   any likeness of a person, in any medium

   "the photographer made excellent portraits"

   Synonyms:
   portraiture, characterization, depicting, personation, delineation, portraying, portrayal, enactment, depiction

Matched Categories

1. • Likeness
   • Word Picture

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1. portraitnoun

   Synonyms:
   representation (of a face or a person, drawn or painted), likeness, daguerreotype, photograph, portraiture, MINIATURE

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1. List of paraphrases for "portrait":

   picture, portraits, vertical, portrayal, sketch, profile, spitting, likeness, snapshot, overview, depiction, painting

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1. Hatnim Lee:

   It's almost like if you have a barrier up, it makes you almost want it more, want to know them more. ... I ask( customers) for something so much more than their money. I ask them to be vulnerable for me or to share a piece of them with me. If you're taking a person's portrait, it's asking a lot of somebody.

2. Mira Nairs:

   Portraying the reality of what we were living around was so funny compared to anything else, and yet it was a portrait of ignorance and of complete oblivion about what the reality of the world is.

3. Joe Berlinger:

   As far as my understanding, there was some initial contact to get some access, and then once the book came out, there was no contact, and no attempt to rectify their feelings of the portrait being problematic… I believe there should have been a greater attempt to address their issues. The evidence demonstrates that there was no such attempt.

4. Julia Leeb:

   You have to bow ... out of respect, and if you take pictures, you should take the entire statue, you cannot take a portrait, for example ... because it's a lack of respect. And you cannot take pictures from behind.

5. Samuel Butler:

   Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.