picture
picture is a 7-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The art of painting; representation by painting. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The art of painting; representation by painting.
- noun. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model.
- noun. An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief.
- transitive verb. To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.
- noun. graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
"a small painting by Picasso"
"he bought the painting as an investment"
- noun. a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material
- noun. a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
"they showed us the pictures of their wedding"
"a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
- noun. a typical example of some state or quality
"the very picture of a modern general"
"she was the picture of despair"
- noun. a clear and telling mental image
"he described his mental picture of his assailant"
"he had no clear picture of himself or his world"
- noun. the visible part of a television transmission
"they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone"
- noun. a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
"they went to a movie every Saturday night"
"the film was shot on location"
- noun. illustrations used to decorate or explain a text
"the dictionary had many pictures"
- noun. a graphic or vivid verbal description
"too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"
"the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"
- noun. a situation treated as an observable object
"the political picture is favorable"
"the religious scene in England has changed in the last century"
- verb. imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
"I can't see him on horseback!"
"I can see what will happen"
- verb. show in, or as in, a picture
"This scene depicts country life"
"the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"
Synonyms
painting, exposure, photo, photograph, pic, icon, ikon, image, impression, video, film, flick, movie, delineation, depiction, scene, envision, fancy, figure, project, see, visualise, visualize, depict
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in picture:
Common word forms
pictured, picturer, pictures, picturely, picturing, pictureful, pictureless
Words from these letters
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