Synonyms for drawing
ˈdrɔ ɪŋdraw·ing

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. drawing

   A sketch is a rough, suggestive presentation of anything, whether graphic or literary, commonly intended to be preliminary to a more complete or extended treatment. An outline gives only the bounding or determining lines of a figure or a scene; a sketch may give not only lines, but shading and color, but is hasty and incomplete. The lines of a sketch are seldom so full and continuous as those of an outline, being, like the shading or color, little more than indications or suggestions according to which a finished picture may be made; the artist's first representation of a sunset, the hues of which change so rapidly, must of necessity be a sketch. Draft and plan apply especially to mechanical drawing, of which outline, sketch, and drawing are also used; a plan is strictly a view from above, as of a building or machine, giving the lines of a horizontal section, originally at the level of the ground, now in a wider sense at any height; as, a plan of the cellar; a plan of the attic. A mechanical drawing is always understood to be in full detail; a draft is an incomplete or unfinished drawing; a design is such a preliminary sketch as indicates the object to be accomplished or the result to be attained, and is understood to be original. One may make a drawing of any well-known mechanism, or a drawing from another man's design; but if he says, "The design is mine," he claims it as his own invention or composition. In written composition an outline gives simply the main divisions, and in the case of a sermon is often called a skeleton; a somewhat fuller suggestion of illustration, treatment, and style is given in a sketch. A lawyer's brief is a succinct statement of the main facts involved in a case, and of the main heads of his argument on points of law, with reference to authorities cited; the brief has none of the vagueness of a sketch, being sufficiently exact and complete to form, on occasion, the basis for the decision of the court without oral argument, when the case is said to be "submitted on brief." Compare DESIGN.

   Synonyms:
   brief, design, draft, outline, picture, plan, skeleton, sketch

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. drawingnoun

   an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper

   "it is shown by the drawing in Fig. 7"

   Synonyms:
   draft, draftsmanship, lottery, drafting, drawing off, draught

2. drawingnoun

   a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines

   "drawings of abstract forms"; "he did complicated pen-and-ink drawings like medieval miniatures"

   Synonyms:
   draft, draftsmanship, lottery, drafting, drawing off, draught

3. drawing, draftsmanship, draftingnoun

   the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams

   "he learned drawing from his father"

   Synonyms:
   draught, draftsmanship, draft, drafting, lottery, mechanical drawing, drawing off

4. lottery, drawingnoun

   players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots

   Synonyms:
   draft, draught, lottery, drafting, drawing off, draftsmanship

5. drawing, drawing offnoun

   act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source

   "the drawing of water from the well"

   Synonyms:
   draft, draftsmanship, lottery, drafting, drawing off, draught

6. draft, draught, drawingnoun

   the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

   Synonyms:
   draftsmanship, bill of exchange, draft, draught, draft copy, muster, drafting, rough drawing, order of payment, tipple, lottery, conscription, gulp, swig, selective service, potation, drawing off

Matched Categories

1. • Artwork
   • Representation

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pictography

   pictography is a form of writing which uses representational, pictorial drawings, similarly to cuneiform and, to some extent, hieroglyphic writing, which also uses drawings as phonetic letters or determinative rhymes. some pictograms, such as hazards pictograms, are elements of formal languages.

   the pictographs said nothing of an earthquake! dennis detected pictographs near it.

   Submitted by anonymous on December 16, 2020  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. drawingnoun

   Synonyms:
   art of delineation

2. drawingnoun

   Synonyms:
   delineation, sketch, picture, plan, outline, draught

3. drawingnoun

   Synonyms:
   awe

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. drawingnoun

   Synonyms:
   traction, hauling, pulling, graphics, diagraphics, delineation, sketch, draught, diagram, picture, limning, representation

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "drawing":

   draw, design, pivot, drawings, attracting, painting, sketch, tractor, appellant, circulation, attract, picture

How to pronounce drawing?

How to say drawing in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use drawing in a sentence?

1. Maine CDC director Nirav Shah:

   The fact that we got much, much less than we initially thought and were told we would be getting -- we're going back to the drawing board.

2. Karl Buhler, 1930:

   By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons his graphic efforts and relies almost entirely on words. Language has first spoilt drawing and then swallowed it up completely.

3. Carlos Dora:

   This resolution will provide the health sector with the equipment, tools, knowledge and capacity to respond to climate-related health issues in their area, while drawing upon resources and ideas from other players, there's still a lot the health systems can do, though, to adapt to climate change.

4. Justin Mankin:

   It's kind of like the central bank of an economy, drawing money from local banks to kind of keep the economy afloat, lake Powell is the central bank of Colorado River. Maybe Lake Powell's workable for a little while, but just like a household, the longer Lake Powell's in debt, the harder Lake Powell gets. And Lake Powell's really the same thing with these reservoirs.

5. William Wegman:

   It was great, because I could be by myself in my room, like I was when I was a little boy, drawing pictures.