PICTURES Synonyms: 110 Similar and Opposite Words

pictures 1 of 2

noun

plural of picture

as in film

the art or business of making a movie hoping for a career in pictures

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verb

present tense third-person singular of picture

as in depicts

to present a picture of the famous painting that pictures the Founding Fathers signing the Declaration of Independence

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as in imagines

to form a mental picture of could easily picture the mining town from the vivid description of it in the author's memoirs

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as in describes

to give a representation or account of in words pictured the sailing ship in vivid language

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as in sketches

to make a representation of by producing lines on a surface the next assignment is to picture your own face using colored pencils

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Recent Examples of pictures

Noun

This is on top of Perez Hilton and plenty of other sites (Gawker included) that would just flat-out insult people, draw nasty things on their pictures, and just generally malign them. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026 Post-ballet, Sorbara will walk ten blocks south of Lincoln Center for a borscht martini at Russian Samovar, where, fittingly, the walls are adorned with pictures of Baryshnikov. — Fiorella Valdesolo, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2026 Joan Didion, the mistress of concision and a Hemingway admirer, began her career writing captions and sidebars to fit around pictures in women’s magazines. — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026 Laffont’s pictures helped circulate abroad the idea that the United States was not simply a rampaging corporate and imperial power—that there was not just another America, but an ever-expanding crowd of other Americas. — Lucy Sante, Vanity Fair, 21 Sep. 2026 One of her recent deliveries was for Green Meadows resident Norma, whose door is decorated with pictures of flowers. — Wakisha Bailey, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026 Like all the other participants in the beginning class, Bugumba also has an artistic bent, bringing a tumbler artistically decorated with cat logos and a phone case covered with feline pictures. — Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026 The spacecraft gathered more detailed pictures last fall, followed by confirmation of the discovery early this year. — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026 Nine deaths bring nine funerals and the front pages of the two local newspapers, the Middlesbrough Gazette and the Northern Echo, both carry pictures of the previous day’s ceremony for PC Matthew Blades in nearby Hartlepool. — Michael Walker, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Verb

With nearly every surface painted to her liking, Jordan pictures herself staying in the apartment for a while. — Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Petrarch pictures the ghosts of Homer and Ennius together, and Homer’s ghost points out to Ennius a solitary figure, Francescus, working on a great epic poem, Africa. — Literary Hub, 17 July 2026 The Breadwinner star pictures the destination as the culmination of his career, according to a Wall Street Journal profile published on May 15. — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026 Miss Manners pictures your guests, looking forward to a pleasant evening with you, being confronted with your suggestions. — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026 After all, no one pictures a futuristic city cloaked in exhaust fumes. — Alex Hewitt, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2026 Tuffin will produce the Inspector Brant pictures through Strong Island. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025 The approach to the childhood flashbacks came from how Springsteen pictures his past. — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025 Strachan pictures the multi-colored gemstones (less summer, more fall) complementing collarless coats, cashmere crewneck sweaters, and white button-up shirts. — Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pictures

Noun

De Heer has spent more than 40 years in Tasmania, Australia, directing, writing and producing films across a broad range of genres and subjects.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026
The same logic has already appeared in Ellen’s workshop for women in film, where authority gathers under the name of confession.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of film

Verb

Lizzie and Bridget having a romantic relationship Monster depicts Lizzie and Bridget as forming a romantic relationship, which starts when Bridget becomes a maid for her family.

— Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2026
The painting by Farmer depicts his father’s basketball team in Missouri.

— Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of depicts

Verb

The nonprofit describes itself as Indiana’s first and largest scholarship-granting organization.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
Appropriated from a John Cale album, the title accurately describes scenes of bloodletting committed by bizarre, scenery-chewing yakuza members, and the energy hovers somewhere around a bloodier-than-baseline Takashi Miike movie from the mid-2000s.

— Vadim Rizov, Variety, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of describes

Verb

Bernard sketches out the location of Silo 1, at the center of seven complexes, each containing seven silos.

— Noel Murray, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2026
That concision is evident in an almost brutally economical edit and in sharp, precise writing which provides narrative elements and deftly sketches character before moving busily on.

— Caspar Salmon, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of sketches

Verb

On TV, Absolom portrays Benny in season 2 of Apple TV+’s sci-fi series Silo, opposite Rebecca Ferguson, Common, and Harriet Walter.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026
In Madden, Cage costars with Christian Bale, who portrays late Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis, in the film, which explores Madden’s NFL coaching career and the creation of the popular Madden NFL video games franchise.

— Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of portrays

Verb

The few still images Polyphony Digital has provided don’t provide us with an angle to see if the Mini layout is still feasible with the new track model.

— Adam Ismail, The Drive, 3 Sep. 2026
The finalist images document the consequences of overfishing and bycatch, the impact of pollution on marine mammals and the killing of pilot whales in the Faroe Islands, a practice known as grindadráp.

— Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026