Depict
[dɪ'pɪkt]
Definition
(p. p.) Depicted.
(p. p.) Depicted.
(v. t.) To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray.
(v. t.) To represent in words; to describe vividly.
Editor: Sheldon
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Paint, sketch, portray, delineate, pencil.[2]. Describe, set forth.
Edited by Julia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Portray, color, paint, draw, delineate
ANT:Misrepresent, exaggerate, deform, caricature
Checked by Llewellyn
Definition
v.t. to paint carefully: to make a likeness of: to describe minutely.
Inputed by Joe
Examples
- Suffering and amiability may exist together, and writers have loved to depict their conjunction; there is a human and touching harmony in the picture. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Who shall depict its bliss and bale? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- When I depict it as a beautiful case, you see, miss, Mr. Bucket goes on, glancing gravely at Sir Leicester, I mean from my point of view. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As for Miss Mary, her sorrow at Amelia's departure was such as I shall not attempt to depict. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Where is the modern Rembrandt who could depict our midnight procession? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You must not think, reader, that ill sketching Miss Ainley's character I depict a figment of imagination. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I would fain linger yet with a few of those among whom I have so long moved, and share their happiness by endeavouring to depict it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- And then he heard Lydgate's account of the troubles which Rosamond had already depicted to him in her way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was seated on the ice, making spasmodic efforts to smile; but anguish was depicted on every lineament of his countenance. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The pictures drawn in these books were so vivid, that we seemed to have experienced the results depicted by them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I never after saw such consternation depicted on the faces of the people. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The surprise depicted on the countenances of his guests imparted new courage to the host. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Horror was depicted on every countenance. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It was dry, and he flung himself down upon the barrow, his face towards the moon, which depicted a small image of herself in each of his eyes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- That one word, my dear Watson, should have told me the whole story had I been the ideal reasoner which you are so fond of depicting. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The reproduction of an old lithograph depicting this scene indicates the interest of the neighbors in this event. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Pierce