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Definition of PICTURE

1

a two-dimensional design intended to look like a person or thing <using only watercolors, she produced a strikingly lifelike picture of her mother>

Synonyms icon (also ikon), illustration, image, likeness

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

2

a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track <the actor's latest picture is another thriller>

Synonyms film, flick, flicker, motion picture, moving picture, picture

Related Words animated cartoon, cartoon, docudrama, documentary, feature, featurette, short, short subject; silent, talkie; B movie, B picture, cofeature

3

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

4

position with regard to conditions and circumstances <when personal opinion becomes part of the picture, the journalist isn't just reporting the news>

Synonyms ball game, deal, footing, picture, posture, scene, status, story

Related Words rank, standing; place, spot, state; score, status quo

5

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

Related Words Chinese copy; effigy, portrait, portrayal; companion, fellow, mate; equal, equivalent; analogue (or analog), parallel

Near Antonyms antithesis, converse, opposite, reverse

6

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

Near Antonyms actuality, fact, reality

7

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

Related Words Bollywood, Hollywood; showbiz, show business