Report
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
Report is a synonym for sketch in outline topic. Sometimes you can use "Report" instead the word "Sketch" as a noun or a verb, if it concerns topics such as drawing.
How words are described
| old | old report | old sketch |
| full | full report | full sketch |
| long | long report | long sketch |
| detailed | detailed report | detailed sketch |
| Other adjectives: similar, brief, short, original, initial, accurate, single, actual, entire, infamous, quick, famous, new, final, later, official, next, different, earlier, aforementioned. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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On the Beavis And Butthead episode "Heroes", a news report on the plane that the duo shot down shows a police sketch of them drawn in a more realistic style.
Source: Fourth Wall Portrait -
Subverted and played straight when a news report releases an accurate sketch of a suspected serial killer, and then shows a sketch of a suspected accomplice, "believed to be his wife".
Source: Facial Composite Failure - Media Scrum N-Word Privileges: In one sketch Gavin Crawford interrupts a co-anchor's report to apologize for having said "the n-word".
Cite this Source
Sketch and Report. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/report/sketch
Report & Sketch. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/report/sketch>.
Sketch or Report. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/report/sketch.
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