portrayal

portrayal
Synonyms and related words:
acting, alphabet, aping, art, blueprint, buffoonery, business, cameo, catalog, cataloging, character, character sketch, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, conventional representation, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, description, details, diagram, drama, drawing, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, evocation, exemplification, figuration, gag, graphic account, ham, hammy acting, head, hieroglyphic, hoke, hokum, iconography, ideogram, illustration, image, imagery, imaging, imitation, impersonation, impression, incarnation, itemization, letter, limning, logogram, logograph, map, masquerade, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, miniature, mummery, musical notation, notation, overacting, pantomime, pantomiming, particularization, patter, performance, performing, personation, personification, photograph, pictogram, picture, picturization, plan, playacting, playing, portrait, portraiture, posing, prefigurement, presentment, printing, profile, projection, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, schema, score, script, silhouette, sketch, slapstick, specification, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, syllabary, symbol, tablature, taking a role, vignette, vivid description, word painting, writing

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  • Portrayal — Por*tray al, n. The act or process of portraying; description; delineation. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • portrayal — index caricature, delineation, description, narration, part (role), representation (statement), st …   Law dictionary

  • portrayal — 1834, from PORTRAY (Cf. portray) + AL (Cf. al) (2) …   Etymology dictionary

  • portrayal — [pôr trā′əl] n. 1. the act of portraying 2. a portrait; description; representation …   English World dictionary

  • portrayal — [[t]pɔː(r)tre͟ɪəl[/t]] portrayals 1) N COUNT: usu sing, usu poss N of n An actor s portrayal of a character in a play or film is the way that he or she plays the character. Mr Ying is well known for his portrayal of a prison guard in the film The …   English dictionary

  • portrayal — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ accurate, realistic, vivid ▪ moving ▪ negative ▪ Much television news gives a negative portrayal of politics. ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

  • portrayal — por|tray|al [po:ˈtreıəl US po:r ] n [U and C] the way someone or something is described or shown in a book, film, play etc portrayal of ▪ the newspapers portrayal of Islamic culture accurate/realistic etc portrayal ▪ The film is not an accurate… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • portrayal — noun 1) a portrayal of a parrot Syn: painting, picture, portrait, drawing, sketch, representation, depiction, study 2) her portrayal of adolescence Syn: description, representation, characterization …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • portrayal — noun /ˌpɔrˈtreɪ.əl/ a) The act of portraying. He had already designed the portrayal of his father as the old white king, and himself as the young white king, in a series of woodcuts illustrating the narrative which culminated in the one romance… …   Wiktionary

  • portrayal — noun 1) her portrayal of adolescence Syn: description, representation, characterization, depiction, evocation 2) Brando s portrayal of Corleone Syn: performance as, representation, interpretation, rendering …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • portrayal — UK [pɔː(r)ˈtreɪəl] / US [pɔrˈtreɪəl] noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms portrayal : singular portrayal plural portrayals the way that something or someone is portrayed …   English dictionary

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