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. 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.

2. Roland Kelts:

   None of them have even seen the film, and while it is based on one man's story, it's a feature, not a documentary. There are plenty of movies that depict the brutality and inhumanity of war, unbroken.

3. William Ralph Inge:

   We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

4. Krzysztof Kieślowski:

   Why did they devise censorship? To show a world which doesn’t exist, an ideal world, or what they envisaged as the ideal world. And we wanted to depict the world as it was.

5. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew:

   Our paper bills and the images of great American leaders and landmarks that they depict have long been a way for us to honor our past and discuss our values, this decision of putting a woman on the $ 10 bill reflects our aspirations for the future as much as the reflections of the past.