Synonyms of sketches

sketches 1 of 2

noun

plural of sketch

1

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• drawings
• portraits
• depictions
• illustrations
• cartoons
• images
• figures
• representations
• outlines
• contours
• silhouettes
• delineations
• caricatures
• engravings
• doodles
• watercolors
• etchings
• blueprints
• likenesses
• line drawings
• pastels
• aquatints
• charcoals
• etches

2

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• portraits
• descriptions
• pictures
• depictions
• portrayals
• renderings
• vignettes
• tales
• definitions
• portraitures
• accounts
• illustrations
• anecdotes
• stories
• narratives
• delineations
• reports
• chronicles
• yarns
• demonstrations
• explanations
• exemplifications
• clarifications
• expositions
• explications
• elucidations

sketches

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of sketch

1

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• traces
• outlines
• defines
• lines
• silhouettes
• circles
• rounds
• trims
• delineates
• surrounds
• margins
• frames
• diagrams
• charts
• edges
• maps (out)
• loops
• bounds
• skirts
• draws
• rings
• rims
• fringes
• hems
• encircles
• girths
• girdles
• compasses

2

as in describes

to give a representation or account of in words

briefly sketched the intent of the reorganization plan

Synonyms & Similar Words

• describes
• portrays
• depicts
• images
• paints
• pictures
• renders
• sets out
• outlines
• illustrates
• characterizes
• recounts
• draws
• delineates
• limns
• summarizes
• reports
• shows
• exhibits
• displays
• represents
• defines
• narrates
• labels
• relates
• hints
• traces
• tells
• suggests
• demonstrates
• vignettes
• recites
• drafts
• silhouettes
• qualifies
• sums up
• rehearses
• touches off
• reimages
• redescribes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• colors
• twists
• distorts
• falsifies
• perverts
• misrepresents
• warps
• misstates
• garbles
• misdescribes

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sketches

Noun

Original concept sketches by the late John Hench, longtime artist and official Disney Legend, gave retro-future vibes and inspiration. —Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 May 2026

The Ambient Experience themes were created from sketches by award-winning illustrator Joey Chou. —Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 28 May 2026

One of the earliest sketches on this list is also one of the best. —Jesse Hassenger, Entertainment Weekly, 28 May 2026

For film producer Cornelia Popp and her husband, design studio Holzrausch designed a Munich town house that didn’t begin with floor plans, but instead images—specifically scenes and sketches that the couple assembled. —Katharina Schwarze, Architectural Digest, 23 May 2026

Creative Studio is a generative AI image editor that transforms sketches into finished artwork or completely changes the style of an existing image. —Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026

The walls in one room are covered in hundreds of his early sketches for Argentaia, ideas of what was to become. —Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 22 May 2026

Realizing that late-night sketches would no longer be appreciated, Colbert and team winged it — no rundowns, no scripts. —Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 May 2026

However, there are occasional visual flourishes, like the beginning and end of each stage resembling sketches, and the backgrounds featuring light pencil lines and watercolor effects, hinting that the game takes place in a storybook. —Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 19 May 2026

Verb

The report by Skyscanner, a free global search engine for travel, sketches out a dynamic that bodes well for merchants and cities hoping for an economic boost similar to other major events that have taken place in recent months. —George Avalos, Mercury News, 3 June 2026

Through five portraits of relatives and mentors, five expressions of resistance, the filmmaker sketches her life story. —Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 22 May 2026

Ahangarani sketches her life story through five portraits of relatives and mentors. —Leo Barraclough, Variety, 22 May 2026

Constraint Is a Creative Brief BFL's core technical innovation — latent diffusion, a method that sketches a rough visual blueprint before rendering detail — wasn't chosen for elegance. —Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026

All of this is to amp up our sympathy for these men and our certainty that Carol killed Floyd, until the season finale finally sketches her out, albeit thinly. —Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 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