What is another word for portrays?

Pronunciation: [pɔːtɹˈe͡ɪz] (IPA)

Portrays refers to a visual or verbal representation of someone or something. Some synonyms for this word are depict, illustrate, represent, showcase, emphasize, highlight, expose, reveal, and demonstrate. Each of these words carries a slightly different connotation and nuance, but they all convey the general idea of portraying something in a particular way. Depending on the context, one synonym may be more appropriate than another. For instance, if you want to emphasize the visual aspect of something, you might use "illustrate." If you want to convey a sense of uncovering or unveiling something, "expose" or "reveal" might be more fitting.

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Usage examples for Portrays

His range of subject covers, therefore, a great deal that is painful, but nothing that is simply repulsive: because the poetry of human life, that is of individual experience, is absent from nothing which he portrays.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Santayana rightly regards the prophet, one who portrays the ideals of experience and destiny, as the greatest poet.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
His proper language is that of the imagination, and the picture which he portrays is that of a reciprocal social relationship between man and the Supreme Master of the situation of life.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry

Famous quotes with Portrays

  • A wise can watch through the writer’s words to realize if the same author is actually good nature-wise or just portrays oneself as nice.
    Anuj Somany
  • Your stand/reaction before or in the face of challenges, eventualities and uncertainties is what truly determines, proves and portrays the real stuff that you are made of i.e. whether you are actually weak or strong, unyielding or yielding.
    Emeasoba George
  • A motion picture must be true to life. If a picture portrays a false emotion a false emotion it trains people seeing it to react abnormally.
    William Moulton Marston
  • I do not say the story is true, for I did not witness the happenings which it portrays, but the fact that in the telling of it to you I have taken fictitious names for the principal characters quite sufficiently evidences the sincerity of my own belief that it be true. The yellow, mildewed pages of the diary of a man long dead, and the records of the Colonial Office dovetail perfectly with the narrative of my convivial host, and so I give you the story as I painstakingly pieced it out from these several various agencies. If you do not find it credible you will at least be as one with me in acknowledging that it is unique, remarkable, and interesting.
    Edgar Rice Burroughs

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