Bill Clinton spoke in ambiguous language when asked to describe his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
Source: tatoeba (1997)
Describe
//dɪˈskɹaɪb//
Synonyms for "describe" (102 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
9 entriesMore specific
4 entriesAntonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
5 entriesRelated terms
7 entriesderived
9 entrieshas context
2 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
59 entriesShowing 16 of 59 words.
similar
1 entriesTranslations
127 translations across 73 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- beskryf verb (to represent in words)
Albanian
1 entries- përshkruaj verb (to represent in words)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐκφράζω verb (to represent in words)
Arabic
2 entries- وصف verb (to represent in words)
- وَصَفَ verb (to represent in words)
Armenian
2 entries- բնորոշել verb (to represent in words)
- նկարագրել verb (to represent in words)
Asturian
1 entries- describir verb (to represent in words)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- təsvir etmək verb (to represent in words)
Basque
1 entries- deskribatzea verb (to represent in words)
Belarusian
2 entries- апі́сваць verb (to represent in words)
- апіса́ць verb (to represent in words)
Bengali
1 entries- বর্ণনা করা verb (to represent in words)
Bulgarian
4 entries- опи́свам verb (to represent in words)
- опи́ша verb (to represent in words)
- очерта́вам verb (to give rise to a geometrical structure)
- очерта́я verb (to give rise to a geometrical structure)
Burmese
2 entries- ဖော်ပြ verb (to represent in words)
- သရုပ်ဖော် verb (to represent in words)
Catalan
1 entries- descriure verb (to represent in words)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 形容 verb (to represent in words)
- 描寫 /描写 verb (to represent in words)
- 描述 verb (to represent in words)
Cornish
1 entries- deskrifa verb (to represent in words)
Czech
2 entries- popisovat verb (to represent in words)
- popsat verb (to represent in words)
Danish
2 entries- beskrive verb (to represent in words)
- beskrive verb (to give rise to a geometrical structure)
Dutch
2 entries- beschrijven verb (to represent in words)
- omschrijven verb (to represent in words)
Esperanto
2 entries- adjektivi verb (to represent in words)
- priskribi verb (to represent in words)
Estonian
1 entries- kirjeldama verb (to represent in words)
Finnish
3 entries- kuvailla verb (to represent in words)
- kuvata verb (to give rise to a geometrical structure)
- luonnehtia verb (to represent in words)
French
1 entries- décrire verb (to represent in words)
Galician
1 entries- describir verb (to represent in words)
Georgian
1 entries- აღწერა verb (to represent in words)
German
3 entries- beschreiben verb (to represent in words)
- beschreiben verb (to give rise to a geometrical structure)
- beschreiben verb (to author a new taxon)
Greek
1 entries- περιγράφω verb (to represent in words)
Hebrew
1 entries- תיאר verb (to represent in words)
Hindi
1 entries- वर्णन करना verb (to represent in words)
Hungarian
1 entries- leír verb (to represent in words)
Icelandic
1 entries- lýsa verb (to represent in words)
Ido
1 entries- deskriptar verb (to represent in words)
Interlingua
1 entries- describer verb (to represent in words)
Italian
1 entries- descrivere verb (to represent in words)
Japanese
2 entries- 描写する verb (to represent in words)
- 記述する verb (to represent in words)
Kazakh
4 entries- айғақтау verb (to represent in words)
- дәлелдеу verb (to represent in words)
- сипаттау verb (to represent in words)
- ыспаттау verb (to represent in words)
Khmer
1 entries- ពណ៌នា verb (to represent in words)
Korean
2 entries- 묘사하다 verb (to represent in words)
- 서술하다 verb (to represent in words)
Ladino
1 entries- deskrivir verb (to represent in words)
Lao
4 entries- ຊີ້ແຈງ verb (to represent in words)
- ບັນຍາຍ verb (to represent in words)
- ພັນນະນາ verb (to represent in words)
- ພັນຣະນາ verb (to represent in words)
Latin
1 entries- dēscrībō verb (to represent in words)
Latvian
1 entries- aprakstīt verb (to represent in words)
Lithuanian
2 entries- aprašyti verb (to represent in words)
- išreikšti verb (to represent in words)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- wopisaś verb (to represent in words)
- wopisowaś verb (to represent in words)
Macedonian
2 entries- опише verb (to represent in words)
- опишува verb (to represent in words)
Mongolian
3 entries- зурах verb (to represent in words)
- тайлбарлах verb (to represent in words)
- тодорхойлох verb (to represent in words)
North Frisian
1 entries- beskriiw verb (to represent in words)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- beskrive verb (to represent in words)
- beskrive verb (to give rise to a geometrical structure)
Occitan
1 entries- descriure verb (to represent in words)
Old English
1 entries- āmearcian verb (to represent in words)
Oromo
1 entries- ibsuu verb (to represent in words)
Persian
3 entries- بیانیدن verb (to represent in words)
- توصیف کردن verb (to represent in words)
- وصفیدن verb (to represent in words)
Polish
2 entries- opisać verb (to represent in words)
- opisywać verb (to represent in words)
Portuguese
1 entries- descrever verb (to represent in words)
Romanian
1 entries- descrie verb (to represent in words)
Russian
4 entries- опи́сывать verb (to represent in words)
- опи́сывать verb (to give rise to a geometrical structure)
- описа́ть verb (to represent in words)
- описа́ть verb (to give rise to a geometrical structure)
Scots
1 entries- describe verb (to represent in words)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- opisívati verb (to represent in words)
- opísati verb (to represent in words)
- опи́сати verb (to represent in words)
- описи́вати verb (to represent in words)
Slovak
4 entries- opisovať verb (to represent in words)
- opísať verb (to represent in words)
- popisovať verb (to represent in words)
- popísať verb (to represent in words)
Slovene
2 entries- opisati verb (to represent in words)
- opisovati verb (to represent in words)
Spanish
1 entries- describir verb (to represent in words)
Swedish
2 entries- beskriva verb (to represent in words)
- beskriva verb (to give rise to a geometrical structure)
Tajik
1 entries- тасвир кардан verb (to represent in words)
Tamil
2 entries- வரை verb (to give rise to a geometrical structure)
- விவரி verb (to represent in words)
Telugu
1 entries- వర్ణించు verb (to represent in words)
Thai
1 entries- พรรณนา verb (to represent in words)
Turkish
1 entries- tanımlamak verb (to represent in words)
Ukrainian
2 entries- опи́сувати verb (to represent in words)
- описа́ти verb (to represent in words)
Upper Sorbian
2 entries- wopisać verb (to represent in words)
- wopisować verb (to represent in words)
Urdu
1 entries- بیان کریں verb (to represent in words)
Uzbek
2 entries- tasvirlamoq verb (to represent in words)
- tavsiflamoq verb (to represent in words)
Vietnamese
2 entries- miêu tả verb (to represent in words)
- mô tả verb (to represent in words)
Welsh
1 entries- disgrifio verb (to represent in words)
Yiddish
1 entries- באַשרייבן verb (to represent in words)
Sample sentences
25 total sentences available.
Can you describe the object?
Source: tatoeba (44133)
Words cannot describe the beauty.
Source: tatoeba (44335)
Describe that accident in detail.
Source: tatoeba (47076)
Showing 4 of 25 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.