Synonyms for sketch
skɛtʃsketch

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 3 votes

1. sketch

   A sketch is a rough, suggestive presentation of anything, whether graphic or literary, commonly intended to be preliminary to a more complete or extended treatment. An outline gives only the bounding or determining lines of a figure or a scene; a sketch may give not only lines, but shading and color, but is hasty and incomplete. The lines of a sketch are seldom so full and continuous as those of an outline, being, like the shading or color, little more than indications or suggestions according to which a finished picture may be made; the artist's first representation of a sunset, the hues of which change so rapidly, must of necessity be a sketch. Draft and plan apply especially to mechanical drawing, of which outline, sketch, and drawing are also used; a plan is strictly a view from above, as of a building or machine, giving the lines of a horizontal section, originally at the level of the ground, now in a wider sense at any height; as, a plan of the cellar; a plan of the attic. A mechanical drawing is always understood to be in full detail; a draft is an incomplete or unfinished drawing; a design is such a preliminary sketch as indicates the object to be accomplished or the result to be attained, and is understood to be original. One may make a drawing of any well-known mechanism, or a drawing from another man's design; but if he says, "The design is mine," he claims it as his own invention or composition. In written composition an outline gives simply the main divisions, and in the case of a sermon is often called a skeleton; a somewhat fuller suggestion of illustration, treatment, and style is given in a sketch. A lawyer's brief is a succinct statement of the main facts involved in a case, and of the main heads of his argument on points of law, with reference to authorities cited; the brief has none of the vagueness of a sketch, being sufficiently exact and complete to form, on occasion, the basis for the decision of the court without oral argument, when the case is said to be "submitted on brief." Compare DESIGN.

   Synonyms:
   brief, design, draft, drawing, outline, picture, plan, skeleton

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1. sketchnoun

   Synonyms:
   outline, draught, skeleton, delineation

2. sketchverb

   Synonyms:
   outline, draw, depict, portray, paint, delineate

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. sketch, studynoun

   preliminary drawing for later elaboration

   "he made several studies before starting to paint"

   Synonyms:
   cogitation, subject, report, resume, discipline, subject area, cartoon, work, study, subject field, written report, survey, field, field of study, bailiwick, vignette

2. sketch, vignettenoun

   a brief literary description

   Synonyms:
   vignette, resume, survey, study, cartoon

3. sketch, survey, resumenoun

   short descriptive summary (of events)

   Synonyms:
   resume, study, sight, cartoon, view, vignette, survey, curriculum vitae

4. cartoon, sketchverb

   a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine

   Synonyms:
   resume, toon, study, survey, cartoon, animated cartoon, vignette

5. sketch, chalk outverb

   make a sketch of

   "sketch the building"

   Synonyms:
   adumbrate, outline, chalk out

6. sketch, outline, adumbrateverb

   describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of

   "sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas"

   Synonyms:
   limn, adumbrate, outline, intimate, insinuate, draft, delineate, chalk out

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1. sketchnoun

   Synonyms:
   outline, drawing, delineation, plan, skeleton, pencilling, plot, rough draft, first draft, design in outline

2. sketchverb

   Synonyms:
   draw (in outline), chalk out, make a rough draught of

3. sketchverb

   Synonyms:
   depict, delineate, represent, portray, paint, pencil, shadow forth

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1. sketchnoun

   Synonyms:
   draught, outline, plan, drawing, design, scenario, esquisse

2. sketchverb

   Synonyms:
   draught, portray, draw, depict, delineate

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1. List of paraphrases for "sketch":

   skit, sketches, biographical, biographique, portrait, biography, sketchbook, outline, esquisse, drawing

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1. List of known nicknames for "Sketch":

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1. Talesa Marie Chartrand:

   I'm a little wacky doodle, a sketch mcgetch, half ass between day dreaming and paranoid.

2. Eddie Murphy:

   I totally understood, it was the biggest thing in the news at the time. I can see why they thought it would be funny, and the sketch that Norm [Macdonald] wrote was hysterical.

3. Wendy Bell:

   You needn't be a criminal profiler to draw a mental sketch of the killers who broke so many hearts. They are young black men, likely in their teens or in their early 20s, they have multiple siblings from multiple fathers and their mothers work multiple jobs. These boys have been in the system before. They've grown up there. They know the police. They've been arrested.

4. Deputy Culture Minister Piotr Zuchowski:

   On the death bed, this person communicated the information together with a sketch, where this might possibly be.

5. Pierre Courtial:

   Cardin taught me everything, from how to sketch to the cut and sewing.