What is another word for depictive?

Pronunciation: [dɪpˈɪktɪv] (IPA)

When describing something that is representative or illustrative, there are a variety of synonyms that can be used instead of the word depictive. These include descriptive, evocative, expressive, graphic, pictorial, portrayive, emblematic, iconic, suggestive, and symbolic. Each of these words conveys a different nuance of meaning, but all are suitable for conveying the idea of something that is visually or symbolically representative. Whether you are describing an artwork, a photograph, a literary passage, or a film sequence, using one of these synonyms will add depth and precision to your description, making it more evocative and memorable.

What are the opposite words for depictive?

Depictive is an adjective used to describe something or someone that portrays or represents a subject in a detailed and realistic manner. The antonyms for depictive can be abstract, subjective or ambiguous. Abstract is opposite to depictive as abstract does not depict or portray anything in detail. It is rather a general or theoretical concept. Subjective is another antonym for depictive, which means something that is based on personal opinions or feelings rather than facts or evidence. Ambiguous is also an antonym of depictive, which refers to something that is unclear or confusing and does not clearly depict or portray anything.

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Usage examples for Depictive

Miss Alice Corkran has shown me an illustrated coloured map, depictive of the main incidents and scenery of the Pilgrim's Progress, which he genially made for "the children."
"Life of Robert Browning"
William Sharp
What lovelier image in modern poetry than that depictive of the forest-pool in depths of savage woodlands, unvisited but by the shadows of passing clouds,- "the trees bend O'er it as wild men watch a sleeping girl."
"Life of Robert Browning"
William Sharp
It is Browning's high distinction that he has this soul-depictive faculty-restricted as even in his instance it perforce is-to an extent unsurpassed by any other poet, ancient or modern.
"Life of Robert Browning"
William Sharp

Famous quotes with Depictive

  • Defiling their shadows, infidels, accursed of Allah, with fingernails that are foot-long daggers, with mouths agape like cauldrons full of teeth on the boil, with eyes all fire, shaitans possessed of Iblis, clanking into their wars all linked, like slaves, with iron chains. Murad Bey, the huge, the single-blowed ox-beheader, saw without too much surprise mild-looking pale men dressed in blue, holding guns, drawn up in squares six deep as though in some massed dance depictive of orchard walls. At the corners of the squares were heavy giins and gunners. There did not seem to be many horsemen. Murad said a prayer within, raised his scimitar to heaven and yelled a fierce and holy word. The word was taken up, many thousandfold, and in a kind of gloved thunder the Mamelukes threw themselves on to the infidel right and nearly broke it. But the squares healed themselves at once, and the cavalry of the faithful crashed in three avenging prongs along the fire-spitting avenues between the walls. A great gun uttered earthquake language at them from within a square, and, rearing and cursing the curses of the archangels of Islam on to the uncircumcized, they wheeled and swung towards their protective village of Embabeh. There they encountered certain of the blue-clad infidel horde on the flat roofs of the houses, coughing musket-fire at them. But then disaster sang along their lines from the rear as shell after shell crunched and the Mamelukes roared in panic and burden to the screams of their terrified mounts, to whose ears these noises were new. Their rear dissolving, their retreat cut off, most sought the only way, that of the river. They plunged in, horseless, seeking to swim across to join the inactive horde of Ibrahim, waiting for .action that could now never come. Murad Bey, with such of his horsemen as were left, yelped off inland to Gizeh.
    Anthony Burgess

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