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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 depict, picture, portray, representRelated Words 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 delineate, depict, draw, describe, limn, paint, picture, portray, render, set out, sketchRelated Words 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 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 reflect, mirrorRelated Words 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 conceit [chiefly dialect], conceive, conjure (up), dream, envisage, envision, fancy, fantasize, fantasy, feature, ideate, imagine, picture, see, vision, visualizeRelated Words 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 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

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

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 abstraction, cogitation, concept, conception, idea, impression, intellection, mind's eye, notion, picture, 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

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