Synonyms for pencil
ˈpɛn səlpen·cil

Princeton's WordNet

1. pencilnoun

   a thin cylindrical pointed writing implement; a rod of marking substance encased in wood

2. pencilnoun

   graphite (or a similar substance) used in such a way as to be a medium of communication

   "the words were scribbled in pencil"; "this artist's favorite medium is pencil"

3. pencilnoun

   a figure formed by a set of straight lines or light rays meeting at a point

4. pencilverb

   a cosmetic in a long thin stick; designed to be applied to a particular part of the face

   "an eyebrow pencil"

5. pencilverb

   write, draw, or trace with a pencil

   "he penciled a figure"

Matched Categories

1. • Draw
   • Figure
   • Graphite
   • Physics
   • Writing Implement

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. pencilnoun

   Synonyms:
   brush (made of hair or fine bristles)

2. pencilnoun

   Synonyms:
   crayon

3. pencilverb

   Synonyms:
   paint, depict, delineate, portray, sketch

4. pencilverb

   Synonyms:
   mark or draw with a pencil

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

1. List of paraphrases for "pencil":

   pen, crayon, eyeliner

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1. Salman Rushdie:

   The thing that I really resent is the way in which these, our dead comrades ... who died using the same implement that I use, which is a pen or pencil, have been almost immediately vilified and called racists and I don't know what else.

2. W. Somerset Maugham:

   When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.

3. Alexander MacLaren:

   Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

4. The Apple Pencil:

   Leave it to Apple to poke fun at styluses for years and then go create the new stylus gold standard, the $100 Apple Pencil enables the best digital writing and sketching experience I’ve ever had on a tablet.

5. Egypt Ufele:

   I was bullied, and they called me all kinds of names. One time I got stabbed with a pencil.