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 as true as the fact that Heather called the paparazzi to take pictures of her and Terry at Disney World. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026 When people tour your home, whether through pictures or an open house, there’s more to the home that adds to the feel other than the color of your walls or hardwood floors. — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2026 On the cool, overcast October day of my matriculation into the university in 2019, my classmates and I walked onto Selwyn College’s Old Court, excited and taking pictures of each other in our traditional robes. — Jill Damatac, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2026 Your phone can also be used to capture pictures of the eclipse. — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026 Several other curved, slender bones were soon found nearby, according to pictures shared with the station. — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026 Zeimetz, coincidentally or not, posted pictures at a Hammond restaurant and at a Joliet Slammers baseball game on those corresponding dates. — Megan De Mar, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026 The room started to shake so hard that pictures fell off the wall. — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 20 Aug. 2026 The former staffer for Swalwell told the San Francisco Chronicle that Swalwell began sending her nude pictures on Snapchat and messages after she was hired by his office in 2019. — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Verb

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 And Trey pictures his dad still in the third base coach’s box for the Dodgers. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 10 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

The film from writer-director Elle Sofe Sara will get a theatrical release in early 2027 before launching on digital platforms later next year.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2026
Yamazaki returns as director for a film Toho and Gkids describe as featuring more extensive effects work than its predecessor, while keeping its post-World War II Japan setting grounded in the experiences of its characters.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of film

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The sculpture depicts a female figure, her cloak billowing out in the shape of a seed around her and etched with more than 300 global symbols of peace, holding olive branches and surrounded by six children, each representing a continent.

— Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2026
The film depicts the life of the Hungarian-Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil, with Watson playing the artist’s mother.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of depicts

Verb

The Komlós conjecture imagines each person (or object) as an arrow of length 1 called a unit vector.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026
The show imagines communities centered on the Mississippi River, which flows through Minneapolis, and the installation echoes a riverbed, with platforms approximating islands.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of imagines

Verb

The Sound Of Fiscal Dominance Fiscal dominance describes the situation in which the government’s financing needs, rather than the inflation outlook, start to steer monetary conditions.

— James Broughel, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
The agreement Hansen describes would be a much larger legal matter than a standard screening NDA, and would not be asked of other individuals screening the film — including press and third-party marketing agencies.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 21 Aug. 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

Noun

Dark movie theaters, or creepy home basements, are the classic venues of choice for those who love supernatural scares.

— Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 26 Aug. 2026
Paranormal Activity, the play, builds to the sort of slick and grisly finale that would be just right for the end of a cruel horror movie, but that lands awkwardly onstage.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of movie

Verb

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
While the permits from that project do not reference the fence or driveway, Google Earth images from February 2019 appear to show both improvements already in place months before Martinez purchased the home.

— Larry Seward, CBS News, 14 July 2026