💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Word picture"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| characterizationnoun | The act or process of characterizing. |
| delineationnoun | The act of delineating; depiction. |
| depictionnoun | (countable) A lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual. |
| picturenoun | A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc. |
| word-paintingnoun | a graphic or vivid verbal description |
| word meaningnoun | the accepted meaning of a word |
| the word | a Channel 4 variety show in the United Kingdom that aired from 1990 to 1995. |
| picturingverb | depiction |
| imagerynoun | Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse. |
| visual imagenoun | a mental image that is similar to a visual perception |
| word playnoun | A technique in which the nature of the words used become part of the subject of the work, such as puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, and telling character names. |
| figurative language | — |
| metaphornoun | (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of a word, phrase, concept, or set of concepts to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing described and what is denoted by the word, etc., that is used. |
| wordplaynoun | A humorous play on words; such plays on words collectively. |
| describingverb | (transitive) To represent in words. |
| mental imagerynoun | the ability to form mental images of things or events |
| metaphorsnoun | (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of a word, phrase, concept, or set of concepts to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing described and what is denoted by the word, etc., that is used. |
| imagistically | In an imagistic manner. |
| lexical meaningnoun | the meaning of a word that depends on the nonlinguistic concepts it is used to express |
| pictographicnoun | A pictograph or hieroglyph. |
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