Showing Results for "sketches"

sketches

NOUN

drawing, outline

Synonyms

STRONGEST

account blueprint cartoon chart copy depiction description illustration likeness painting picture piece portrayal summary version vignette

STRONG

adumbration compendium configuration delineation design diagram digest doodle draft figuration figure form monograph plan report representation rough shape skeleton survey syllabus

WEAK

aperçu précis

VERB

draw, outline

Synonyms

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chalk chart delineate depict lay out paint portray

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adumbrate blueprint characterize describe design detail develop diagram doodle draft line plan plot represent skeleton trace

WEAK

block out map out rough out skeletonize

Antonyms

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forget ignore misrepresent neglect

Example Sentences

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Sketches like the Menopazzi Sisters - an acrobatic act that wasn't that acrobatic.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2023

Sketches and blackouts are often evanescent, like an idea sketched on a cocktail napkin; some last only a few seconds yet might have been fiendishly complicated to prepare and execute.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2023

Sketches of potential suspects were also created, O’Carroll said.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2022

Sketches of subway riders from the notebooks of this period prove that his knowledge of the figure was already complete.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022

Sketches of things she saw, or imagined she saw?

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish