Synonyms for depict
dɪˈpɪktde·pict

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1. depictverb

   Synonyms:
   translate, demonstrate, usher, submit, return, express, provide, fancy, give, project, exhibit, evince, portray, deliver, prove, point, describe, yield, picture, indicate, envision, visualize, record, designate, generate, interpret, supply, show up, present, register, establish, turn in, render, show, fork out, limn, shew, evidence, read, draw, figure, testify, visualise, image

2. depictverb

   To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.

   Synonyms:
   deliver, evince, turn in, project, envision, point, return, figure, submit, establish, testify, shew, read, prove, render, usher, translate, generate, give, supply, fork out, demonstrate, record, evidence, designate, image, picture, exhibit, present, show, visualize, yield, describe, limn, show up, provide, express, draw, visualise, interpret, indicate, fancy, register, portray

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(2.75 / 4 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. depict

   Synonyms:
   portray, color, paint, draw, delineate

   Antonyms:
   misrepresent, exaggerate, deform, caricature

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1. picture, depict, render, showverb

   show in, or as in, a picture

   "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"

   Synonyms:
   supply, figure, express, hand over, demo, try, exhibit, register, show, return, establish, shew, deliver, fork over, fork up, present, read, indicate, evidence, point, record, furnish, see, testify, fancy, picture, translate, visualize, usher, give, envision, turn in, designate, limn, show up, render, evince, provide, prove, image, yield, demonstrate, portray, fork out, draw, visualise, generate, describe, interpret, project, submit, bear witness

2. describe, depict, drawverb

   give a description of

   "He drew an elaborate plan of attack"

   Synonyms:
   tie, distinguish, take in, suck up, portray, pull in, attract, get, identify, quarter, thread, show, run, guide, key out, describe, drag, draw in, key, suck, delineate, report, make, soak up, cast, picture, pull, get out, take out, disembowel, sop up, puff, limn, reap, pass, render, imbibe, take up, string, line, name, pull out, draw, draw off, force, trace, absorb, withdraw, draw and quarter, pull back, account, discover, eviscerate

3. portray, depict, limnverb

   make a portrait of

   "Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba"

   Synonyms:
   present, describe, limn, delineate, show, portray, impersonate, render, draw, picture, outline

Matched Categories

1. • Art
   • Represent

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. depictverb

   Synonyms:
   paint, sketch, portray, delineate, pencil

2. depictverb

   Synonyms:
   describe, set forth

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. depictverb

   Synonyms:
   portray, delineate, describe, picture

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1. List of paraphrases for "depict":

   describe, illustrate, portray

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How to use depict in a sentence?

1. Petro Poroshenko:

   It is the utmost cynicism to depict our country as a supposedly fascist state. It is done with the aim of justifying to the Russian people its own criminal action - Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

2. Louis Leterrier:

   It's not like I can go and cast Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts and I know what Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts're going to bring to me, i had to build my Brad Pitt and build my Julia Roberts and describe to incredible sculptors the emotion that I wanted to depict and the raw puppets to have. It's so important, in the colors, the textures, everything -- every detail in a certain puppet is creating a character.

3. The Australian:

   The Council considers that the cartoon uses exaggeration and absurdity to make its point, but accepts the publisher's claim that it does not depict Ms. Williams as an ape, rather showing her as 'spitting the dummy'.

4. Franz Kompisch:

   You chose the safe desk job, what you consider to be moral guilt and what you depict as being a cog in the wheel is exactly what lawmakers view as being an accessory to murder.

5. American Indians President Fawn Sharp:

   Meanwhile, the name' Atlanta Braves,' the tomahawk adorning the team's uniform, and the' tomahawk chop' that the team exhorts its fans to perform at home games are meant to depict and caricature not just one tribal community but all Native people, and that is certainly how baseball fans and Native people everywhere interpret them, in our discussions with the Atlanta Braves, we have repeatedly and unequivocally made our position clear -- Native people are not mascots, and degrading rituals like the' tomahawk chop' that dehumanize and harm us have no place in American society.