Antonyms for Drawing
ˈdrɔ ɪŋdraw·ing

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1. drawing

   A sketch is a rough, suggestive presentation of anything, whether graphic or literary, commonly intended to be preliminary to a more complete or extended treatment. An outline gives only the bounding or determining lines of a figure or a scene; a sketch may give not only lines, but shading and color, but is hasty and incomplete. The lines of a sketch are seldom so full and continuous as those of an outline, being, like the shading or color, little more than indications or suggestions according to which a finished picture may be made; the artist's first representation of a sunset, the hues of which change so rapidly, must of necessity be a sketch. Draft and plan apply especially to mechanical drawing, of which outline, sketch, and drawing are also used; a plan is strictly a view from above, as of a building or machine, giving the lines of a horizontal section, originally at the level of the ground, now in a wider sense at any height; as, a plan of the cellar; a plan of the attic. A mechanical drawing is always understood to be in full detail; a draft is an incomplete or unfinished drawing; a design is such a preliminary sketch as indicates the object to be accomplished or the result to be attained, and is understood to be original. One may make a drawing of any well-known mechanism, or a drawing from another man's design; but if he says, "The design is mine," he claims it as his own invention or composition. In written composition an outline gives simply the main divisions, and in the case of a sermon is often called a skeleton; a somewhat fuller suggestion of illustration, treatment, and style is given in a sketch. A lawyer's brief is a succinct statement of the main facts involved in a case, and of the main heads of his argument on points of law, with reference to authorities cited; the brief has none of the vagueness of a sketch, being sufficiently exact and complete to form, on occasion, the basis for the decision of the court without oral argument, when the case is said to be "submitted on brief." Compare DESIGN.

   Synonyms:
   brief, design, draft, outline, picture, plan, skeleton, sketch

Matched Categories

1. • Artwork
   • Representation

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1. drawingnoun

   an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper

   "it is shown by the drawing in Fig. 7"

   Synonyms:
   draft, draftsmanship, lottery, drafting, drawing off, draught

2. drawingnoun

   a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines

   "drawings of abstract forms"; "he did complicated pen-and-ink drawings like medieval miniatures"

   Synonyms:
   draft, draftsmanship, lottery, drafting, drawing off, draught

3. drawing, draftsmanship, draftingnoun

   the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams

   "he learned drawing from his father"

   Synonyms:
   draught, draftsmanship, draft, drafting, lottery, drawing, mechanical drawing, drawing off

4. lottery, drawingnoun

   players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots

   Synonyms:
   draft, draught, drawing, lottery, drafting, drawing off, draftsmanship

5. drawing, drawing offnoun

   act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source

   "the drawing of water from the well"

   Synonyms:
   draft, drawing, draftsmanship, lottery, drafting, drawing off, draught

6. draft, draught, drawingnoun

   the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

   Synonyms:
   draftsmanship, bill of exchange, draft, draught, drawing, draft copy, muster, drafting, rough drawing, order of payment, tipple, lottery, conscription, gulp, swig, selective service, potation, drawing off

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1. drawingnoun

   Synonyms:
   traction, hauling, pulling, graphics, diagraphics, delineation, sketch, draught, diagram, picture, limning, representation

How to use Drawing in a sentence?

1. Martin Clayton:

   Leonardo knew that these drawings at the end of his life were the only real record of what he had worked on and what he had achieved, and so if you want to understand Leonardo in the round, drawing is the only way that you can do that, this exhibition gives visitors a full picture of Leonardo.

2. James Logan:

   I passed 30 people on the street, and none of them looked like the drawing, as I turned on Hollywood Boulevard, I looked up, and there was the guy. I just knew it was him.

3. Stephen Namara:

   In 1994, Signe Mayfield said in The Palo Alto Cultural Center: "A more contained approach to the figure is seen in the lyrical drawing Bend, 1991, by Stephen Namara. In contrast to Neri's expressionistic forms, Namara has depicted the calisthenic stance of the figure in a pure, linear arabesque. An ambient, white light heightens the seductive beauty of the drawing. Its resonance comes from its capacity to act as both an abstract calligraph and Lyrical representation".

4. Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst:

   I think our administration needs to go back to the drawing table and take another look at this—not only are they using it on the Kurdish Peshmerga, but what’s to say they don’t start using it against American soldiers as well?

5. Susan Rice:

   We will work with our international partners to sideline those who stand in the way of peace, drawing upon the full range of our multilateral and bilateral tools.

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