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Synonyms for portrayal
pɔrˈtreɪ əl, poʊr-por·tray·al
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Princeton's WordNet
portrayal, portraiture, portraitnoun
a word picture of a person's appearance and character
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portraiture, characterization, depicting, depiction, portrait, delineation, portraying, enactment, personationportrayal, characterization, enactment, personationnoun
acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture
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portraiture, personation, characterisation, portraying, enactment, depiction, word-painting, depicting, characterization, portrait, act, passage, impersonation, word picture, picture, delineationdepicting, depiction, portraying, portrayalnoun
a representation by picture or portraiture
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line drawing, characterization, depicting, depiction, portraiture, characterisation, limning, portrait, word-painting, delineation, word picture, portraying, enactment, picture, personationportrait, portrayalnoun
any likeness of a person, in any medium
"the photographer made excellent portraits"
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portraiture, characterization, depicting, personation, portrait, delineation, portraying, enactment, depictiondepiction, delineation, portrayalnoun
representation by drawing or painting etc
Synonyms:
line drawing, characterization, depicting, depiction, portraiture, characterisation, limning, portrait, word-painting, delineation, word picture, portraying, enactment, picture, personation
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
portrayalnoun
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delineation, painting, representation, sketchportrayalnoun
Synonyms:
description, account
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
portrayalnoun
Synonyms:
delineation, description, account, recital, painting, depiction
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "portrayal":
representation, portrait, image, picture, depiction, description
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#376 | image | |
#379 | description | |
#552 | act | |
#631 | picture | |
#3875 | representation | |
#5723 | passage | |
#5895 | portrait | |
#9475 | characterization | |
#16823 | enactment | |
#21407 | depicting | |
#25588 | depiction | |
#25922 | portrayal | |
#31397 | characterisation | |
#37013 | delineation | |
#38342 | portraying | |
#43107 | portraiture | |
#52549 | impersonation |
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I mean [ Fletcher ] won an Academy Award doing it, so there's no where to go but down, i absolutely feel that pressure because I have an enormous reverence for Louis Fletcher and for Louise Fletcher portrayal in that movie and for the movie itself. This story stands on its own in Sixth Sense that we are starting many years prior to when we meet Nurse Ratched in the movie' Cuckoos Nest,' so I know that I'm not going to be trying to emulate what she did because this is prior to her doing what she did in the movie. I have a little bit of leeway there, but I'm certainly thinking about it.
The collective portrayal of the immigrant experience is what's compelling, not just one individual story.
Just as Native American activists have demanded the removal ofChristopher Columbus statuesand pushed to transform the Columbus holiday into an acknowledgment of hisbrutality toward Indigenous people, Native American activists have long objected to the popular portrayal of Thanksgiving.
There's a fluidity to Donald Glover and Billy Dee's( portrayal of Lando's) sexuality, i mean, I would have loved to have gotten a more explicitly LGBT character into this movie. I think it's time, certainly, for that, and I love the fluidity -- sort of the spectrum of sexuality that Donald Glover appeals to and that droids are a part of.
This portrayal feeds unprecedented efforts to intimidate the court and to damage it as an independent institution.
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