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Synonyms for describe
dɪˈskraɪbde·scribe

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Wiktionary5.0 / 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 Antonyms4.3 / 3 votes

  1. describe

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

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

Princeton's WordNet3.8 / 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

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. describeverb

    Synonyms:
    delineate, trace, draw, mark out

  2. describeverb

    Synonyms:
    represent (by words), portray, depict, explain, recount, narrate, relate, give an account of, set forth

  3. describeverb

    Synonyms:
    characterize, specify the peculiarities of, set forth the character of

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. describeverb

    Synonyms:
    delineate, depict

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How to use describe in a sentence?

  1. Michael Lewis:

    She loved Ross Schultz, with whom she died. She loved to live and our hearts are so broken they can't find the words to describe the feeling. Her mother, Tabitha Soren, and I, and her brother Walker and sister Quinn are going to find ways for her memory to live in her absence.

  2. Christopher Moran:

    There is data that already exists suggesting that obesity might( be) associated with microbiome changes, although a lot of that data doesn't describe whether the microbiome changes came first... or the weight changes happened and then microbiome changes, we also know that many large dietary changes( especially restriction diets) have a large effect on our microbiome.

  3. President Biden:

    How we describe people really sticks. It affects how we treat them, how we talk about immigrants shapes the policies. It frames what are the issues really at stake here. It acknowledges that we're talking about human beings and families.

  4. Fernando Botero, Columbian painter and sculptor:

    I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic reality.

  5. Kimberly Lord:

    The reality is, for us, there will never be closure, there are no words to describe what we lost and how our lives have forever changed.


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