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picture
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of PICTURE
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a two-dimensional design intended to look like a person or thing <using only watercolors, she produced a strikingly lifelike picture of her mother>
Related Words delineation, depiction, representation, resemblance, view; portrait; daub, drawing, finger painting; etching, silhouette, sketch, watercolor; caricature, cartoon, doodle; collage, montage, photograph; hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, ideogram, ideograph; pictograph; diagram
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a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track <the actor's latest picture is another thriller>
Related Words animated cartoon, cartoon, docudrama, documentary, feature, featurette, short, short subject; silent, talkie; B movie, B picture, cofeature
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a vivid representation in words of someone or something <the newspaper report gives a detailed picture of the current situation in that troubled country>
Synonyms definition, delineation, depiction, picture, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, rendering, sketch, vignette
Related Words account, anecdote, chronicle, narrative, report, story, tale, yarn; demonstration, exemplification, illustration; clarification, elucidation, explanation, explication, exposition
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something or someone that strongly resembles another <the young teen is the very picture of her mother>
Synonyms alter ego, carbon, carbon copy, clone, counterpart, doppelgänger (or doppelganger), double, duplicate, duplication, facsimile, fetch, likeness, look-alike, match, mirror image, picture, replica, ringer, spit, spitting image, twin
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something imagined or pictured in the mind <I think I get the picture: you want me to leave>
Synonyms abstraction, cogitation, concept, conception, image, impression, intellection, mind's eye, notion, picture, thought
Related Words apprehension, premonition, presentiment; preconception, prejudice, prepossession; chimera, delusion, hallucination, illusion, phantasm (also fantasm); caprice, conceit, fancy, freak, kink, vagary, whim; cognition, observation, perception, reflection; assumption, belief, conclusion, conviction; conjecture, guess, hunch, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmise, theory; brainchild, brainstorm, brain wave, inspiration
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pictures pl the art or business of making a movie <hoping for a career in pictures>
Synonyms big screen, cinema, film, filmdom, filmland, filmmaking, moviemaking, pictures, screen, silver screen
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