Description
Description noun - A vivid representation in words of someone or something.
Usage example: we immediately recognized the man from our cousin's description of him
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Synonyms for Description
Picture is a synonym for description in depiction topic. In some cases you can use "Picture" instead a noun "Description", when it comes to topics like portrayal, writing.
Picture
Picture noun - A vivid representation in words of someone or something.
Usage example: the newspaper report gives a detailed picture of the current situation in that troubled country
Description is a synonym for picture in depiction topic. Sometimes you can use "Description" instead a noun "Picture", if it concerns topics such as illustration, portrayal.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- view and description
- view and picture
- sketch and description
- sketch and picture
- image and description
- image and picture
- account and description
- account and picture
- report and description
- report and picture
- representation and description
- representation and picture
- outline and description
- outline and picture
How words are described
| good | good description | good picture |
| full | full description | full picture |
| nice | nice description | nice picture |
| detailed | detailed description | detailed picture |
| Other adjectives: better, similar, perfect, complete, appropriate, current, original, accurate, small, actual, entire, real, vivid, little, main, official, above, graphic, different, realistic, unflattering. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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The description and picture of the eclair he provides is so tempting that the chefs start drooling and try to grab the picture.
Source: Food Porn -
In Celestus, most of the ships have a name, picture and description that depend on your Faction.
Source: Cosmetically Different Sides - Shrek: This is parodied when Lord Farquaad chooses Princess Fiona when she's clearly a princesse lointaine he has never met, only been given a picture and description by the magic mirror.
Source: The Dulcinea Effect
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Picture and Description. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/description/picture
Description & Picture. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/description/picture>.
Picture or Description. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/description/picture.
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