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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.8 / 4 votes

1. depict

   Synonyms:
   portray, color, paint, draw, delineate

   Antonyms:
   misrepresent, exaggerate, deform, caricature

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.8 / 5 votes

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 SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. depictverb

   Synonyms:
   paint, sketch, portray, delineate, pencil

2. depictverb

   Synonyms:
   describe, set forth

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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. The Republican lawmakers:

   These many incidents are alarming on their own; together, they depict a complete failure to lead the Department.

2. Ashley Montagu:

   Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

3. Superintendent Errick L. Greene:

   ( Jackson Public Schools) has a great deal of respect and appreciation for our law enforcement partners, the band's performance does not depict the values and people in our community, and was incredibly insensitive to the students, families, law enforcement officials and the entire Brookhaven community. For this we sincerely apologize to all, and we pledge to do better in the future.

4. Britt McHenry:

   I’ve received insults, death threats, and even my mother has been attacked online. For ‘ SVU ’ to depict rape and violence in such a manner, the show risks normalizing it.

5. Michael Cohen:

   I will not be a punching bag as part of anyone's defense strategy, i am not a villain of this story and I will not allow others to try to depict me that way.