Synonyms for portrayal
pɔrˈtreɪ əl, poʊr-por·tray·al

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1. portrayal, portraiture, portraitnoun

   a word picture of a person's appearance and character

   Synonyms:
   portraiture, characterization, depicting, depiction, portrait, delineation, portraying, enactment, personation

2. portrayal, characterization, enactment, personationnoun

   acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture

   Synonyms:
   portraiture, personation, characterisation, portraying, enactment, depiction, word-painting, depicting, characterization, portrait, act, passage, impersonation, word picture, picture, delineation

3. depicting, depiction, portraying, portrayalnoun

   a representation by picture or portraiture

   Synonyms:
   line drawing, characterization, depicting, depiction, portraiture, characterisation, limning, portrait, word-painting, delineation, word picture, portraying, enactment, picture, personation

4. portrait, portrayalnoun

   any likeness of a person, in any medium

   "the photographer made excellent portraits"

   Synonyms:
   portraiture, characterization, depicting, personation, portrait, delineation, portraying, enactment, depiction

5. depiction, delineation, portrayalnoun

   representation by drawing or painting etc

   Synonyms:
   line drawing, characterization, depicting, depiction, portraiture, characterisation, limning, portrait, word-painting, delineation, word picture, portraying, enactment, picture, personation

Matched Categories

1. • Likeness
   • Pictorial Representation
   • Representational Process
   • Word Picture

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1. portrayalnoun

   Synonyms:
   delineation, painting, representation, sketch

2. portrayalnoun

   Synonyms:
   description, account

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1. portrayalnoun

   Synonyms:
   delineation, description, account, recital, painting, depiction

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1. List of paraphrases for "portrayal":

   representation, portrait, image, picture, depiction, description

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How to use portrayal in a sentence?

1. Jonathan Kasdan:

   There's a fluidity to Donald Glover and Billy Dee's( portrayal of Lando's) sexuality, i mean, I would have loved to have gotten a more explicitly LGBT character into this movie. I think it's time, certainly, for that, and I love the fluidity -- sort of the spectrum of sexuality that Donald Glover appeals to and that droids are a part of.

2. Jonathan Kasdan:

   There’s a fluidity to Donald and Billy Dee’s [portrayal of Lando’s] sexuality, i mean, I would have loved to have gotten a more explicitly LGBT character into this movie. I think it’s time, certainly, for that, and I love the fluidity ? sort of the spectrum of sexuality that Donald appeals to and that droids are a part of.

3. John Marshall:

   So, if the cow is soft and nurturing that's how I will paint it and if the cow is sort of angry and startled then I'll try and treat that in the temperate. So, they portray a different thing and it's the thing that is keeping them unique, keeping a sense that each one is different and it's kind of more of an emotional portrayal than a photographic one.

4. Victor Hugo:

   From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

5. Samuel Alito:

   The catchy and sinister term ‘shadow docket’ has been used to portray the court as having been captured by a dangerous cabal that resorts to sneaky and improper methods to get its ways… This portrayal feeds unprecedented efforts to intimidate the court or damage it as an independent institution.