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1 to present a picture of in the painting Sacagawea is imaged as an intrepid woman pointing the way for Lewis and Clark Synonyms of image depict, picture, portray, representWords Related to image delineate, describe, document, render; outline, silhouette, sketch; illustrate, show; diagram; caricature

2 to give a representation or account of in words the brochure images a vacation at the resort in language that makes you want to make a reservation this instant Synonyms of image delineate, depict, draw, describe, limn, paint, picture, portray, render, set out, sketchWords Related to image characterize, define, label, qualify, represent; demonstrate, illustrate; narrate, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, tell; display, exhibit, show; hint, suggest; draft, outline, silhouette, trace, vignette; summarize, sum up, touch off; redescribe, reimageNear Antonyms of image color, distort, falsify, garble, misdescribe, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, twist, warp

3 to reproduce or show (an exact likeness) as a mirror would the burnished chrome fixtures imaged the jewelry store's glittery merchandise Synonyms of image reflect, mirrorWords Related to image clone, copy, duplicate, imitate, reduplicate, repeat, replicate, reproduce

4 to form a mental picture of anyone who still images the cape's coastline as a scene of unspoiled beauty is in for a rude awakening Synonyms of image conceit [chiefly dialect], conceive, conjure (up), dream, envisage, envision, fancy, fantasize, fantasy, feature, ideate, imagine, picture, see, vision, visualizeWords Related to image daydream, stargaze; hallucinate; re-create, reflect, relive, reminisce; contemplate, meditate, muse, ponder, ruminate; concoct, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, plan, project; foresee, prefigure

1 something or someone that strongly resembles another the girl is growing up to be the perfect image of her mother Synonyms of image 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 Words Related to image Chinese copy; effigy, portrait, portrayal; companion, fellow, mate; equal, equivalent; analogue (or analog), parallel Near Antonyms of image antithesis, converse, opposite, reverse

2 a two-dimensional design intended to look like a person or thing a cave with prehistoric images of wild animals Synonyms of image icon (also ikon), illustration, picture, likenessWords Related to image 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

3 something imagined or pictured in the mind a sentimental visit to her childhood home to see if it still matched her mental image of the place Synonyms of image abstraction, cogitation, concept, conception, idea, impression, intellection, mind's eye, notion, picture, thoughtWords Related to image 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 of image actuality, fact, reality

4 a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality) a general who became for many the very image of the stoic warrior Synonyms of image abstract, avatar, embodier, epitome, externalization, genius, icon (also ikon), embodiment, incarnation, incorporation, instantiation, manifestation, objectification, personification, personifierWords Related to image actualization, concretization, exemplification, personalization, realization, substantiation; essence, quintessence, soul; archetype, exemplar, model, paradigm, pattern; reincarnation