PARAPHRASING Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

paraphrasing

verb

present participle of paraphrase

as in translating

to express something (as a text or statement) in different words could you paraphrase your diagnosis of my medical condition, using simpler language?

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Recent Examples of paraphrasing Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon starts As of Now by paraphrasing a meme. —

Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 10 Feb. 2026 This truly was, paraphrasing the 2014 Steve Carell film, a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for the president. —

Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 22 Jan. 2026 Elsewhere on the podcast, Tarantino also remembered that the relationship between the two films spawned an online joke paraphrasing an iconic conversation from his movie Pulp Fiction. —

Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Nov. 2025 Al said, paraphrasing the famous Catholic nun from Calcutta. —

Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for paraphrasing

translating

Verb

But that wasn’t translating to the spring games.

— Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
But for his rendition, Parish builds a steady, riding tension on the lowest string, translating the higher melody into something more like a metal riff.

— Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 6 Mar. 2026