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
Sketch is a synonym for description in thing topic. In some cases you can use "Sketch" instead a noun "Description", when it comes to topics like account, writing.
Sketch
Sketch noun - A vivid representation in words of someone or something.
Usage example: gave her boss quick sketches of the personalities of the clients he was about to meet
Description is a synonym for sketch in thing topic. You can use "Description" instead a noun "Sketch", if it concerns topics such as drawing.
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How words are described
| full | full description | full sketch |
| long | long description | long sketch |
| detailed | detailed description | detailed sketch |
| similar | similar description | similar sketch |
| Other adjectives: brief, short, original, initial, accurate, rough, small, actual, entire, infamous, quick, later, hilarious, official, above, different, extended, realistic, historical. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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When Neal is asked by Peter to do a sketch, he does so in Peter's office, fudging it just enough so that it matches Mozzie's description without looking anything like him.
Source: Facial Composite Failure -
Super Identikit: The rarest chore in the game involves getting robbed, and someone gives you a description to base a sketch on.
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The other boy who was present provides the police sketch artist with a detailed description... of the man's hat.
Source: Suspect Is Hatless
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Sketch and Description. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/description/sketch
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