Synonyms for PORTRAIT
ˈpɔr trɪt, -treɪt, ˈpoʊr-por·trait

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.7 / 14 votes

1. portraitnoun

   a print mode or selection specifying the rectangle to be printed on having the vertical sides longer than the horizontal sides.

   Antonyms:
   profile, landscape

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. portrayal, portraiture, portraitnoun

   a word picture of a person's appearance and character

   Synonyms:
   portraiture, characterization, depicting, depiction, portrait, delineation, portraying, portrayal, enactment, personation

2. portrait, portrayalnoun

   any likeness of a person, in any medium

   "the photographer made excellent portraits"

   Synonyms:
   portraiture, characterization, depicting, personation, portrait, delineation, portraying, portrayal, enactment, depiction

Matched Categories

1. • Likeness
   • Word Picture

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. portraitnoun

   Synonyms:
   representation (of a face or a person, drawn or painted), likeness, daguerreotype, photograph, portraiture, MINIATURE

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

1. List of paraphrases for "portrait":

   picture, portraits, vertical, portrayal, sketch, profile, spitting, likeness, snapshot, overview, depiction, painting

Suggested Resources

1. portrait

   Song lyrics by portrait -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by portrait on the Lyrics.com website.

How to pronounce PORTRAIT?

How to say PORTRAIT in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use PORTRAIT in a sentence?

1. Astrid Centner-d'Oultremont:

   What's very interesting about that portrait is the musical score. It's actually only known from that portrait, so some musicologists have said it could be the work of Mozart himself.

2. Camille Cosby for its story:

   A different man has been portrayed in the media over the last two months, it is the portrait of a man I do not know.

3. Joe Berlinger:

   As far as my understanding, there was some initial contact to get some access, and then once the book came out, there was no contact, and no attempt to rectify their feelings of the portrait being problematic… I believe there should have been a greater attempt to address their issues. The evidence demonstrates that there was no such attempt.

4. Dustin Brown:

   It's a portrait of my dad. I got it last year in April, I think. I've always wanted to have a tattoo. I have the portrait of my dad at home in my bedroom, also. I don't get to see him that often. Normally in the off-season, it's been a very long road for me and my whole family. That's one of the things I've been wanting to do for a very long time and I had the opportunity to do that with a great tattoo artist in Cologne in Germany last year.

5. Omar Bradley:

   Wilkie also served in the Pentagon under Donald Rumsfeld, worked for Condoleezza Rice and had years of experience on Capitol Hill working for Sens. Thom Tillis and Trent Lott. In his new office, Wilkie now hangs a portrait of Gen. Omar Bradley, the first secretary of Veterans Affairs after World War II, and has chosen Bradley's desk as his own. Omar Bradley was tasked with changing VA to accommodate 11 million soldiers coming off active duty and into Veterans Affairs ranks, he was really a visionary.