SKETCHES Synonyms: 113 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of sketch

as in drawings

a picture using lines to represent the chief features of an object or scene made a quick sketch from which she would create a more detailed painting later

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as in portraits

a vivid representation in words of someone or something gave her boss quick sketches of the personalities of the clients he was about to meet

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verb

present tense third-person singular of sketch

as in traces

to draw or make apparent the outline of sketched the garden pavilion on a pad of paper so the homeowners would have a rough idea of how it was going to look

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to give a representation or account of in words briefly sketched the intent of the reorganization plan

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Recent Examples of sketches

Noun

And my feeling is that there have been brilliant and daring sketches that didn’t make the cut that should have. —

Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026 Myers, who joined Saturday Night Live in the late 1980s, became known for his offbeat characters and distinctly stylized sketches, something with which Armisen immediately connected. —

Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 12 Apr. 2026 The New Yorker’s digital design director, Aviva Michaelov, says that Szauder sent around 15 different sketches to senior art director Supriya Kalidas, including the one that eventually led to the final Hydra-esque eldritch monstrosity that can be seen above the article. —

Cath Virginia, The Verge, 11 Apr. 2026 Throughout Season 51, sketches have buckled under dragging runtimes, one-note jokes bludgeoned to death and facile concepts; earlier this year, another first time host, Teyana Taylor, was similarly let down by sketches that couldn’t match her depth and range as a performer. —

Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 11 Apr. 2026 Models and sketches from 1961 to 1965 show the project’s parameters continually altering in response to public opinion and bureaucratic constraints. —

Terry Nguyen, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026 Three sketches of suspects wanted in connection with a 2007 cold case homicide investigation in Rancho Cucamonga. —

Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026 Whale lusts after a hunky gardener (Brendan Fraser) and persuades him to pose for a few sketches; Julian, though bisexual, expresses no such interest in Lori, and any art-making turns out to be a gratifyingly mutual endeavor. —

Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026 Ryan, who is Orange County based, will begin the conceptual design phase of the memorial, including the preparation of detailed sketches and a 12-inch maquette. —

Magda Liszewska, Oc Register, 30 Mar. 2026

Verb

Word of the potential deals arrives on the heels of a new report that sketches out a significant improvement for the office market in the South Bay. —

George Avalos, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026 Fey revealed the lounge has fallen apart after literally being run into the ground by too many Five-Timers Club sketches. —

Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026 Yet Barbara is so much more than a foil; Rosenberg sketches out the life of a woman who dreamed of ascending in status, of moving from working-class Brooklyn to the Upper East Side on the arm of a surgeon. —

Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026 Seidle sketches out miniature worlds on his Casio with the oblong abstractions of a kindergartener doodling on a piece of paper, his primitive songs existing in a kind of nascent pre-genre state. —

Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2026 In her pursuit of answers, the Canadian multimedia artist and filmmaker sketches a reimagining of manhood that is neither binary nor an alibi. —

Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026 Through this sly trick, where doorknobs rise to noses and walls tower high above the hairline, Argento sketches a vision of witchy terror akin to early works of German surrealism. —

Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Jan. 2026 Drawing on his own diaries and Said’s unpublished letters and manuscripts, Hovsepian sketches both the portrait of a friendship and an intellectual biography. —

Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025 Newman sketches out the basic details of her emergence as a self-care guru. —

Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 18 Nov. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sketches

Noun

Users share research, pictures, videos, drawings and memes from major school shootings — with Columbine the dominant obsession — and connect through a series of ever-changing hashtags, adapted to avoid content restrictions.

— Meena Duerson, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
By 2 payouts and previous drawings here.

— USA Today staff, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026