PICTURES Synonyms: 110 Similar and Opposite Words

pictures 1 of 2

noun

plural of picture

as in film

the art or business of making a movie hoping for a career in pictures

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verb

present tense third-person singular of picture

as in depicts

to present a picture of the famous painting that pictures the Founding Fathers signing the Declaration of Independence

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as in imagines

to form a mental picture of could easily picture the mining town from the vivid description of it in the author's memoirs

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as in describes

to give a representation or account of in words pictured the sailing ship in vivid language

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as in sketches

to make a representation of by producing lines on a surface the next assignment is to picture your own face using colored pencils

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Recent Examples of pictures

Noun

Gacy painted over a thousand pictures, many of clowns, while on death row in the 1980s and 1990s. — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026 To my eye, the differences between the 17 Pro and Duo in good lighting were minimal, but the Duo did capture marginally better detail in low light (see the cat pictures). — ArsTechnica, 27 Oct. 2026 One painted pretty pictures to put on the walls, and one sang songs to keep the others merry all the day long. — Madeline Ffitch, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026 The mayor also said there was a strike next to an underground station and pictures posted on unofficial Telegram channels showed damage at a station and to a tram. — Reuters, NBC news, 26 Oct. 2026 In one experiment, for example, college students were shown trypophobic images, typical fear-inducing pictures—such as those of snakes and spiders—and control images. — Gabriela Galvin, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2026 There were pictures of my mother (so young) and my father (so foreign), both smiling broadly but inscrutably. — Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026 The five-member group — promoting a four-member group comprising Yunah, Minju, Wonhee and Iroha — greeted fans, helped with a giveaway and posed for pictures inside the Melrose pop-up. — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 26 Oct. 2026 Michigan State University's website has pictures of a typical egg mass. — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026

Verb

Pawlikowski is also the director of the 2013 Ida, as well 2018’s Cold War, pictures that, like this one, deftly balance postwar Eastern Bloc realities with the truth that all humans strive for connection and belonging. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Oct. 2026 Roddy Ho is not written as physically fit in Mick Herron’s Slough House books, on which the Apple TV spy show is based — though the character certainly pictures himself that way. — Lisa De Los Reyes, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026 With nearly every surface painted to her liking, Jordan pictures herself staying in the apartment for a while. — Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Petrarch pictures the ghosts of Homer and Ennius together, and Homer’s ghost points out to Ennius a solitary figure, Francescus, working on a great epic poem, Africa. — Literary Hub, 17 July 2026 The Breadwinner star pictures the destination as the culmination of his career, according to a Wall Street Journal profile published on May 15. — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026 Miss Manners pictures your guests, looking forward to a pleasant evening with you, being confronted with your suggestions. — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026 After all, no one pictures a futuristic city cloaked in exhaust fumes. — Alex Hewitt, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2026 Tuffin will produce the Inspector Brant pictures through Strong Island. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pictures

Noun

The film itself is non-linear and does not have a voiceover, both of which were unusual choices for the time.

— Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
The actor’s more recent film credits include Tim Burton’s 2019 Dumbo remake and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024).

— Kelly Martinez, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of film

Verb

Rooms With the Hanoi Opera House just steps away, each of Capella Hanoi's 47 rooms and suites imagines the private quarters of an opera legend.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
Swift appears as a spectral figure trying to warn Johnson that, based on her own experience, her rich husband has more sinister intentions than his current bride imagines.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of imagines

Verb

Before the Ernst-May-Gesellschaft volunteers begin dismantling a kitchen, a photographer documents the interior with a fisheye lens while the team measures and sketches the room.

— Tara Anne Dalbow, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026
The flags couldn’t be redder, and Khoshnoudi nimbly sketches out the circuitous emotional paths S takes to avoid seeing them until such evasion suddenly and brutally becomes impossible.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of sketches

Noun

In a generation of heartbreakers, Ne-Yo became a living embodiment of the movie What Women Want.

— Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2026
However, this movie carries a hefty $100 million price tag (stop-motion animation is labor-intensive and takes years to produce) and likely won’t turn a theatrical profit.

— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of movie

Verb

Guitarricadelafuente portrays Sebastián, the focus of the film’s central timeline set during the Spanish Civil War.

— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026
The spinoff, which portrays Gibbs as an up-and-comer in the early ’90s, has intimately involved Harmon as an executive producer and narrator, but not so much an on-screen presence until a present-day flash-forward story was added for season 3.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of portrays

Verb

Some were also choked — images jurors were shown by both the defense and the prosecution.

— Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
The few still images Polyphony Digital has provided don’t provide us with an angle to see if the Mini layout is still feasible with the new track model.

— Adam Ismail, The Drive, 3 Sep. 2026