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

Wiktionary(2.71 / 14 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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 WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

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

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

1. portraitnoun

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "portrait":

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

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How to use portrait in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Roz Kidman Cox:

   This image is in one sense traditional -- a portrait. But what a striking one, and what magical animals, it is a symbolic reminder of the beauty of nature and how impoverished we are becoming as nature is diminished. It is an artwork worthy of hanging in any gallery in the world.

3. Dejan Stojanovic:

   When magic through nerves and reason passes, imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.

4. Glenn Godenho:

   Building on work at the site by a Hungarian mission, Kathleen has confirmed the presence of a Ptolemaic period Isis temple within the larger Osiris temple that dominates the site, add to this a hoard of coins with Cleopatras portrait on them, and other Greco-Roman period finds not [the] least, fragments of statuary and mummies and we can certainly say that Taposiris Magna was active during Cleopatras reign.

5. John Singer Sargent:

   Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.