DEPICTING Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

depicting

verb

present participle of depict

as in describing

to give a representation or account of in words this letter from an eyewitness depicts the battle in greater detail than any other account

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as in characterizing

to point out the chief quality or qualities of an individual or group the report depicted him as a reliable assistant and an employee who could be entrusted with any task

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as in portraying

to present a picture of the painting depicts a pastoral landscape on a summer day

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Recent Examples of depicting The movement earned the name after protesters used signs depicting the pink bird. — Greg Norman-Diamond, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026 In Egypt, an underwater excavation in Alexandria uncovered a bronze ring depicting the legendary Lighthouse of Alexandria, while prehistoric rock art in Sinai reveals thousands of years of human activity. — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026 The suspect is now charged with possession of child pornography – a second-degree felony – along with voyeurism of a child victim and possession of certain visual material depicting a child, both of which are state jail felonies. — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 Cogitore’s film finds a parallel in a tapestry by Zhenya Machneva depicting the engine of her grandfather’s Renault Kangoo. — Sarah Belmont For Artnews, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2026 The restoration also accounted for previous errors made by past experts who had touched up the painting, fixing, for example, pieces of the painting depicting the figure’s mouth and chin, which had been set in the wrong place. — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 13 Oct. 2026 In the Tenth Arrondissement of Paris, near the Canal Saint-Martin, a mural appeared, seemingly overnight, depicting the lycéens as heroic revolutionaries in a style that seemed equal parts Delacroix and Dragon Ball. — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026 Johnson talks about researching police work but almost entirely avoiding depicting scenes of it on the page, and also explains why the book transitions from third to first person. — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026 SpaceX has released an official video depicting how its orbital data centers would work, creating rings of satellites around the planet. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 6 Oct. 2026

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Paxton has contrasted himself and Talarico from the campaign trail — describing the Democrat as radical — and touts his work as attorney general, including battling big government and big corporations.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Oct. 2026
Trump opened his remarks there by describing how the new jet parked behind him was a gift from the Qatari royal family.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026

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Wilkinson countered that what was at issue was that the network has to go through the early renewal process at all, characterizing it as an act of retaliation that is ripe for district court review.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026
From media, to the players, and the league's dedicated fan base full of left-wing political activists, far too many people have been unfairly characterizing Indiana Fever and Caitlin Clark fans.

— Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of characterizing

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In fact, the Academy Award–winner made a name for herself by portraying women who worked their way up in the world, which proved a winning archetype among Depression-era American audiences.

— Megan Johnson, Architectural Digest, 14 Oct. 2026
Actors portraying Rama and Sita are shown living in exile in a lush green forest.

— Sohini Sarah Pillai, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of portraying

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Hadash-Ta’al and Ra’am, representing the 20% of Israel’s population that is Arab, have ten seats.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 18 Oct. 2026
The researchers found that representing this zone as several kilometers wide, rather than as a narrow boundary, helped their model reproduce the observed retreat and thinning from 1996 to 2023.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026

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