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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1. Matthew Perry:

   Jobs like this( ‘ The Kennedy’s - After Camelot ’) and writing … they are more interesting to me, he told us. I don't even know how many episodes of sitcoms I’ve done, but I’ve done a lot of them and this stuff is more interesting. The actor said he took on the role because it posed a challenge. I took this job because it scared me. I read the first four scripts and the portrayal scared me.

2. Carly Fiorina:

   I think Edward Snowden has been terribly destructive, he has been less than forthcoming. It was a very slanted portrayal about what the NSA does, and he knows it.

3. Sarah Paulson:

   I mean [ Fletcher ] won an Academy Award doing it, so there's no where to go but down, i absolutely feel that pressure because I have an enormous reverence for Louis Fletcher and for Louise Fletcher portrayal in that movie and for the movie itself. This story stands on its own in Sixth Sense that we are starting many years prior to when we meet Nurse Ratched in the movie' Cuckoos Nest,' so I know that I'm not going to be trying to emulate what she did because this is prior to her doing what she did in the movie. I have a little bit of leeway there, but I'm certainly thinking about it.

4. Kathryn Ness:

   At our living history museum, these and future findings will help us further refine our exhibits, as we use archaeological evidence and historical documents as the basis for our portrayal of the past.

5. Samuel Alito:

   This portrayal feeds unprecedented efforts to intimidate the court and to damage it as an independent institution.