Word Meanings - DESCRIBE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

write: cf. OE. descriven, OF. descrivre, F. décrire. See Scribe, and 1. To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to

Additional info about word: DESCRIBE

write: cf. OE. descriven, OF. descrivre, F. décrire. See Scribe, and 1. To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle. 2. To represent by words written or spoken; to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describes countries and cities. 3. To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class. Passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book. Josh. xviii. 9. Syn. -- To set forth; represent; delineate; relate; recount; narrate; express; explain; depict; portray; chracterize.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESCRIBE)

• Characterize
• Mark
• distinguish
• describe
• particularize
• style
• designate
• individualize
• specify
• identify
• Delineate
• Describe
• figure
• sketch
• portray
• depict
• draw
• represent
• paint
• Draw
• Drag
• pull
• attract
• induce
• haul
• entice
• inhale
• delineate
• Paint Color
• tinge
• tint
• Portray

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DESCRIBE)

• Slave
• prevent
• disincline
• dissuade
• Daub
• caricature
• misportray
• misrepresent
• misdelineate
• misdepict

Related words: (words related to DESCRIBE)

• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• DELINEATE
  Delineated; portrayed.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• STYLET
  A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• INDIVIDUALIZER
  One who individualizes.
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• INHALENT
  Used for inhaling; as, the inhalent end of a duct. Dana.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• ATTRACTIVE
  1. Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies. Sir I. Newton. 2. Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing. "Attractive graces." Milton. "Attractive
• PAINTING
  The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture. 3. Color laid on; paint. Shak. 4. A depicting by words; vivid representation
• PAINTER
  A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Totten. (more info) panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. ; painteir a net, gin,
• CONTINGENT
  Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con-
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• ARAEOSTYLE
  See INTERCOLUMNIATION
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• APPRENTICESHIP
  1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
• SURSTYLE
  To surname.
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• AMPHIPROSTYLE
  Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.
• INSTYLE
  To style. Crashaw.