What does "depict" mean?

To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.

What is a synonym for "depict"?

Common synonyms include: describe, describe, draw, picture, portray, portray.

//dɪˈpɪkt// adj, verb

adj, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Verb

1
To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
"And by [these Embassadours] he sent to their master a Tent, wherein the history of the Bible was as richly as curiously depicted in needle-work;"
2
give a description of wordnet
3
show in, or as in, a picture wordnet
4
make a portrait of wordnet

Adjective

1
Depicted. not-comparable, obsolete
"Early 1400s, John Lydgate, “The Concords of Company” in James Orchard Halliwell (ed.), A Selection from the Minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate, London: The Percy Society, 1840, p. 177, I fond a lyknesse depict upon a wal, Armed in vertues, as I walk up and doun, The hed of thre ful solempne and roial, Intellectus, memorye, and resoun;"

"I'm not a poet; I couldn't write a single line to depict its beauty."

From Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpictus, from dēpingō.

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