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

STRONGEST

chalk chart delineate depict lay out paint portray

STRONG

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

STRONG

forget ignore misrepresent neglect

Example Sentences

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There, he found Lee’s detailed hand-drawn sketches of the building and its interior.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

For the costumes and sets, the technology was trained using sketches by Henri de Gissey, a costume designer and decorator for the court of King Louis XIV.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

The painter Frederic Edwin Church would make detailed sketches of plants that might appear in his spectacular, worshipful paintings of the wilderness.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

The plans are predominantly sketches surrounded by notes.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern