Word Meanings - PORTRAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

pourtraire, F. portraire, fr. L. protrahere, protractum, to draw or drag forth; pro forward, forth + trahere to draw. See Trace, v. t., 1. To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback. Take a tile, and lay it before thee,

Additional info about word: PORTRAY

pourtraire, F. portraire, fr. L. protrahere, protractum, to draw or drag forth; pro forward, forth + trahere to draw. See Trace, v. t., 1. To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback. Take a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem. Ezek. iv. 1. 2. Hence, figuratively, to describe in words. 3. To adorn with pictures. Spear and helmets thronged, and shields Various with boastful arguments potrayed. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PORTRAY)

• Delineate
• Describe
• figure
• sketch
• portray
• depict
• draw
• represent
• paint
• Depict
• Portray
• color
• delineate
• Draw
• explain
• illustrate
• define
• picture
• relate
• narrate
• recount
• Imitate
• Represent
• copy
• resemble
• follow
• repeat
• pattern after
• mock
• ape
• counterfeit
• mimic
• Paint Color
• tinge
• tint
• describe

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PORTRAY)

• Expose
• unmask
• detect
• Daub
• caricature
• misportray
• misrepresent
• misdelineate
• misdepict

Related words: (words related to PORTRAY)

• REPEAT
  To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn.
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• DELINEATE
  Delineated; portrayed.
• REPEATEDLY
  More than once; again and again; indefinitely.
• DETECTOR BAR
  A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• MIMICRY
  Protective resemblance; the resemblance which certain animals and plants exhibit to other animals and plants or to the natural objects among which they live, -- a characteristic which serves as their chief means of protection against enemies;
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• PATTERN
  A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it. Pattern box, chain, or cylinder , devices, in a loom, for
• 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.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• EXPLAIN
  out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear
• 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
• 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-
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• PREDEFINE
  To define beforehand.
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• LIVING PICTURE
  A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.