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

Kneeland said the photographs have become popular backdrops for customers taking pictures. — J.m. Banks november 10, Kansas City Star, 10 Nov. 2026 Rising stars from The Body stuck together, even snapping pictures in front of their nearby billboard. — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2026 During Rice's arrest, a handgun was recovered as well as a cellphone that contained pictures of Glasco and Philips. — CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026 Brittany posted pictures of her watching the game with the three kids and included a video of the two older ones jumping up and down when Patrick came to hug them. — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2026 The participants were first shown a series of pictures, with either happy connotations like ones of kittens and flowers, or unhappy connotations, like images of animal mistreatment or theft. — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2026 Atkins created these pictures of algae at the height of botanical illustration. — Andrew Zuckerman, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2026 In fact, the only previous cinematic encounter was the unfortunate 2003 live-action version with Mike Myers that flopped critically and at the box office, winning a pathetic 10 Razzie nominations as one of the worst pictures of that year. — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2026 Levin said Record Store Day asks participating record stores for pictures and videos from the midnight release events that can be shared with the artist’s management, record label and distributor. — Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 2 Nov. 2026

Verb

Pawlikowski is also the director of the 2013 Ida, as well 2018’s Cold War, pictures that, like this one, deftly balance postwar Eastern Bloc realities with the truth that all humans strive for connection and belonging. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Oct. 2026 Roddy Ho is not written as physically fit in Mick Herron’s Slough House books, on which the Apple TV spy show is based — though the character certainly pictures himself that way. — Lisa De Los Reyes, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pictures

Noun

Leibovit said Pal used the replacement concept, which is a stop-motion technique seen today in the works of Tim Burton, Guillermo del Toro and the films of LAIKA Studios.

— Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 11 Nov. 2026
There are also live actors and plenty of tunes from the film that help bring the story to life.

— Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of film

Verb

The film, set between the years 1945 and 1947, depicts a society struggling to recover from war, only to be reduced, once again, by the arrival of a kaiju (as giant monsters are known in Japanese, and to fans of the corresponding film genre).

— Matt Alt, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2026
Another image depicts a nude girl in a room that appears to be part of a motel chain in the Philippines, federal investigators said.

— Max Foster, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of depicts

Verb

Bacon’s own utopian fantasy The New Atlantis imagines a brave technocratic future, and seemingly predicts everything from submarines to genetic modification and the internet.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026
Rooms With the Hanoi Opera House just steps away, each of Capella Hanoi's 47 rooms and suites imagines the private quarters of an opera legend.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of imagines

Verb

Berry, who died last month and never did buy a computer (or a smartphone), describes in the essay his writing process, which involved drafting a piece by hand and then having his wife transcribe it on a typewriter.

— August Lamm, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026
Their calculations used a feature of the model called a universal scaling function, which describes how physical quantities with dimensions, such as length, change over cosmic time.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of describes

Verb

Before the Ernst-May-Gesellschaft volunteers begin dismantling a kitchen, a photographer documents the interior with a fisheye lens while the team measures and sketches the room.

— Tara Anne Dalbow, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026
The flags couldn’t be redder, and Khoshnoudi nimbly sketches out the circuitous emotional paths S takes to avoid seeing them until such evasion suddenly and brutally becomes impossible.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of sketches

Noun

Back then, in the back of the magazine, THR ran lists of movies going into production, including location shoots.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Nov. 2026
Directed by Takashi Yamazaki, the movie takes place two years after the previous installment as Godzilla regenerates and resurfaces to combat a new monster that’s tormenting postwar Japan.

— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of movie

Verb

Some were also choked — images jurors were shown by both the defense and the prosecution.

— Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
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