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

2 of 2

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

Visitors can also see wreaths, holiday vignettes, gingerbread creations and pop into the Festival Holiday Café. — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2026

Fit Check of the Week Tim Burton, iconoclast filmmaker extraordinaire, has a new capsule with Loewe, which has recreated characters and vignettes from The Nightmare Before Christmas as bags and charms. — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 5 Nov. 2026

Holden’s vignettes are caked in grime and emerge at a reckless pace. — Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026

Banned Not banned Told in brief, interconnected vignettes, this novel follows a young Latina growing up in a Chicago neighborhood. — Alexandra Tirado Oropeza, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2026

The book is vignettes of people’s lives without much connective tissue. — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026

Nocturnos by Laura Pérez Alt Autores, Spain The writer and artist’s graphic novel uses a series of dreamlike vignettes to explore the mysterious and magical world of the night. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2026

Each episode of Carrie, beginning with the second, will speak to the main character’s place within that larger world through opening vignettes that depict a different woman with extraordinary abilities from different time periods. — Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2026

Complementing the campaign is a series of film vignettes capturing Waterhouse in tongue-in-cheek moments around town. — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026