Depict

Verb

 * 1) To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
 * 2) * 1984, Lawrence Starr, "Toward a Reevaluation of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess," American Music, vol. 2, no. 2, p. 27,
 * The well-known words depict a woman seeking sanctuary in a love relationship form a brutal, rapacious man.
 * 1) * 1987, Niall O'Loughlin, "Music Reviews: 20th-century guitar," The Musical Times, vol. 128, no. 1734, p. 443,
 * Here the music depicts the delicate pattern of ice on windows.
 * 1) * 1994, E. Pennisi, "Breathe (xenon) deeply to see lungs clearly," Science News, vol. 146, no. 5, p. 70 (caption),
 * False-color computer images depict lungs removed from a mouse.

Adverbs for Depict
symbolically; aesthetically; dramatically; graphically; powerfully; deftly; starkly; episodically; vividly; mercilessly; shrewdly; realistically; fearlessly.

Synonyms for Depict
portray, supply, figure, express, exhibit, register, show, return, establish, shew, deliver, present, read, indicate, evidence, point, record, testify, fancy, picture, translate, visualize, usher, give, envision, turn in, designate, limn, show up, render, evince, provide, prove, image, yield, demonstrate, fork out, draw, visualise, generate, describe, interpret, project, submit, delineate, sketch, describe, paint, illustrate, represent.

Antonyms for Depict
confound, confuse, caricature, distort.

Related terms

 * depiction

Thesaurus
act a part, act out, bring to life, cartoon, catch a likeness, chalk, character, characterize, charcoal, chart, color, copy, crayon, create a role, crosshatch, dash off, daub, delineate, describe, design, diagram, doodle, draft, draw, enact, evoke, express, give words to, hatch, hit off, image, impersonate, interpret, limn, map, narrate, notate, outline, paint, paint a picture, pencil, personate, picture, picturize, play a part, play a role, play opposite, portray, print, recite, recount, register, rehearse, relate, render, report, represent, rub, schematize, scratch, scumble, set forth, shade, sketch, state, stencil, support, sustain a part, symbolize, take a part, take a rubbing, tint, trace, trace out, trace over, write

Translations

 * Bulgarian: описвам, изобразявам
 * Chinese: 描述 (miáoshù)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: kujutama
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Hungarian: lerajzol, lefest,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: a infatisa, a descrie, a picta
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: framställa, skildra