Antonyms for describe
dɪˈskraɪbde·scribe

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. describeverb

   To represent in words.

   The feeling is difficult to describe, but not unpleasant.

   Synonyms:
   depict, portray, bewrite, report, betell

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.3 / 3 votes

1. describe

   Antonyms:
   confound, confuse, mystify, misrepresent, caricature, distort

   Synonyms:
   draw, delineate, portray, explain, illustrate, define, picture, depict, represent, relate, narrate, recount

Matched Categories

1. • Inform
   • Mark

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.8 / 6 votes

1. describe, depict, drawverb

   give a description of

   "He drew an elaborate plan of attack"

   Synonyms:
   tie, distinguish, take in, suck up, portray, pull in, attract, get, identify, quarter, thread, show, run, depict, guide, key out, drag, draw in, key, suck, delineate, report, make, soak up, cast, picture, pull, get out, take out, disembowel, sop up, puff, limn, reap, pass, render, imbibe, take up, string, line, name, pull out, draw, draw off, force, trace, absorb, withdraw, draw and quarter, pull back, account, discover, eviscerate

2. report, describe, accountverb

   to give an account or representation of in words

   "Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental"

   Synonyms:
   account, identify, report, name, answer for, draw, delineate, depict, key out, trace, line, cover, discover, distinguish, calculate, key

3. trace, draw, line, describe, delineateverb

   make a mark or lines on a surface

   "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand"

   Synonyms:
   tie, distinguish, take in, account, hunt, suck up, get, attract, decipher, thread, quarter, sop up, hound, pull in, depict, guide, key out, drag, draw in, key, suck, specify, delineate, report, make, outline, soak up, run along, retrace, define, pull, get out, take out, disembowel, cast, puff, limn, follow, reap, delimit, pass, identify, imbibe, string, draw and quarter, name, pull out, delimitate, draw, draw off, line, run, force, trace, absorb, withdraw, pull back, take up, discover, eviscerate

4. identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, nameverb

   identify as in botany or biology, for example

   Synonyms:
   account, detect, distinguish, chance upon, signalise, trace, let out, separate, place, secern, bring out, reveal, disclose, attain, let on, depict, cite, find, get word, differentiate, fall upon, refer, strike, spot, report, nominate, make, pick out, see, find out, key, expose, bring up, give away, mark, break, appoint, severalise, tell apart, signalize, happen upon, delineate, list, divulge, identify, make out, come across, key out, observe, get a line, notice, recognize, line, name, pick up, call, mention, draw, discern, advert, recognise, tell, unwrap, constitute, learn, come upon, light upon, get wind, chance on, diagnose, discover, secernate, severalize, hear

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. describeverb

   Synonyms:
   delineate, depict

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. insinuate

   as insinuate means to suggest something unpleasant in an indirect way, its antonym should be a word related to suggesting something openly and boldly but not indirectly.

   Submitted by rockdbattle231k on April 17, 2021  

How to use describe in a sentence?

1. Ahmed Korayem:

   The object of the poet is not to accurately describe an emotion brought about from an experience, but rather, the poem is an acknowledgement that words have rendered themselves useless and the attempt to write is merely an acknowledgement of that moment

2. Raymond Schrump:

   To see them all together again, I just can't describe how that felt.

3. Bill Watterson:

   That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

4. Nancy Chabot:

   Sometimes we describe it as running a golf cart into a great pyramid or something like that, but for Dimorphos, this really is about asteroid deflection, not disruption.

5. Megan Ranney:

   I have nurses and other physicians coming and kind of cry together in the break room, with a mask of course, it's difficult to describe what it is like right now to be a health care provider and not be able to provide the care you want to give. I'll say our hospitals are doing everything they can. There is just not enough staff and not enough space.

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