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, movieRelated 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, description, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, rendering, sketch, vignetteRelated 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, situation, posture, scene, status, storyRelated 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, image, replica, ringer, spit, spitting image, twinRelated Words Chinese copy; effigy, portrait, portrayal; companion, fellow, mate; equal, equivalent; analogue (or analog), parallelNear 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, idea, thoughtRelated 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, inspirationNear 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 screenRelated Words Bollywood, Hollywood; showbiz, show business