Synonyms of vignettes

vignettes 1 of 2

noun

plural of vignette

as in portraits

a vivid representation in words of someone or something

the general's memoirs are filled with revealing vignettes of some of the war's most compelling personalities

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

vignettes

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verb

present tense third-person singular of vignette

as in outlines

Related Words

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

Dissimilar Words

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of vignettes

Noun

Not long after, the couple bought the property next door and converted the space between and behind the two buildings into garden vignettes for entertaining, relaxing and production. — Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026

While these moving vignettes carry the weight of history, Barrois has shrunk them down to miniature size. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 14 July 2026

The vignettes range from aliens crashing a slumber party to a man suffering a rogue ocular transplant, but the finest segments come courtesy of original Blair Witch Project director Eduardo Sánchez and The Raid (2011) filmmaker Gareth Evans. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026

The workshop’s facilitators posed a series of hypothetical adversarial actions, or vignettes, to the participants. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 29 June 2026

Though much of the album presents wispy vignettes, the best tracks have clear direction. — Vanessa Ague, Pitchfork, 26 June 2026

Sketches, photographs lost in a fire Norman Rockwell was known for using meticulous detail to draw out a range of human emotions in his vignettes of everyday life. — Elizabeth Blair, NPR, 25 June 2026

The 44th president himself even provides an on-screen introduction for the seven-episode series, which is otherwise composed of standalone vignettes. — Alison Herman, Variety, 24 June 2026

The series pickup caps a wild seven-year journey for Dungeon Crawler Carl, which originated in 2019 with vignettes Dinniman self-published on a digital platform as a hobby while not busy with his main job as a sketch artist at cat shows. — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 18 June 2026