Synonyms for description
dɪˈskrɪp ʃənde·scrip·tion

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1. descriptionnoun

   A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.

   Synonyms:
   sort, variety, type, kind

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1. description

   A definition is exact, an explanation general; a definition is formal, a description pictorial. A definition must include all that belongs to the object defined, and exclude all that does not; a description may include only some general features; an explanation may simply throw light upon some point of special difficulty. An exposition undertakes to state more fully what is compactly given or only implied in the text; as, an exposition of Scripture. Interpretation is ordinarily from one language into another, or from the language of one period into that of another; it may also be a statement giving the doubtful or hidden meaning of that which is recondite or perplexing; as, the interpretation of a dream, a riddle, or of some difficult passage. Definition, explanation, exposition, and interpretation are ordinarily blended in a commentary, which may also include description. A comment is upon a single passage; a commentary may be the same, but is usually understood to be a volume of comments.

   Synonyms:
   comment, commentary, definition, explanation, exposition, interpretation, rendering, translation

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. description, verbal descriptionnoun

   a statement that represents something in words

   Synonyms:
   verbal description

2. descriptionnoun

   the act of describing something

   Synonyms:
   verbal description

3. descriptionnoun

   sort or variety

   "every description of book was there"

   Synonyms:
   verbal description

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1. • Kind
   • Speech Act
   • Statement

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. ekphrasis

   "when i encounter a prolonged ekphrasis......, i worry." from how fiction works by james wood

   Submitted by rinat on September 4, 2019  

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1. descriptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   delineation, tracing

2. descriptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   representation, explanation, account, relation, recital, report, narration, narrative

3. descriptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   sort, kind, class, species

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1. descriptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   delineation, depiction, portrayal, class, species, sort, character

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1. List of paraphrases for "description":

   descriptions, narrative, designation, describe, describing, described, alternate, depiction, descriptive, outline, overview, denomination, specification, descripton, describes, portrayal

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How to use description in a sentence?

1. Justin Fairfax:

   But I cannot agree with a description of events that I know is not true.

2. David Gruber:

   The exciting part of this study is the description of an entirely new form of marine biofluorescence from sharks -- one that is based on brominated tryptophan-kynurenine small-molecule metabolites.

3. Daniel Suneson:

   The three should be convicted of assault according to my description of events.

4. Erin Jones:

   It's part of my job description.

5. Alexander Hamilton:

   In the recommendation to admit indiscriminately foreign emigrants of every description to the privileges of American citizens on their first entrance into our country, there is an attempt to break down every pale which has been erected for the preservation of a national spirit and a national character; and to let in the most powerful means of perverting and corrupting both the one and the other.