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
Report is a synonym for description in account topic. In some cases you can use "Report" instead a noun "Description", when it comes to topics like words, chronicle, writing.
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Related pairs
- character and description
- character and report
- account and description
- account and report
- detail and description
- detail and report
- summary and description
- summary and report
- record and description
- record and report
- declaration and description
- declaration and report
- story and description
- story and report
How words are described
| good | good description | good report |
| full | full description | full report |
| long | long description | long report |
| detailed | detailed description | detailed report |
| Other adjectives: better, similar, brief, short, formal, standard, original, initial, accurate, actual, entire, real, bad, infamous, quick, main, vague, later, inaccurate, official, different, written. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- In an episode of Blue Heelers, Kelly is suspicious of a teenager's report of an armed robbery, noting the incredibly detailed description of the robber's outfit.
- Big Bird even lampshaded it once; when Snuffy went missing in one episode and BB called the police (an Anything Muppet) to take a report, part of his description was that he said "Oh dear" a lot.
Source: Characters / Sesame Street - Weasel News would later report the event as "ritual suicide" — an ironically apt description of what the cultists ended up "accomplishing".
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Report and Description. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/description/report
Description & Report. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/description/report>.
Report or Description. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/description/report.
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