Synonyms for Portraying:

• adj.

  •representing (adjective)
  • showing,
  • Exhibiting,
  • defining,
  • symbolizing,
  • picturing,
  • reproducing,
  • Personifying,
  • interpreting,
  • Delineating,
  • Characterizing,
  • Presenting,
  • revealing.

• n.

  •acting (noun)
  • improvisation,
  • mimicry,
  • seeming,
  • imitation,
  • pantomime,
  • stagecraft,
  • seemings,
  • mime,
  • Dramatizing,
  • pretense,
  • playings,
  • posing,
  • posturing,
  • Enacting,
  • assuming,
  • depiction,
  • characterizations,
  • putting,
  • hamming,
  • showing off,
  • pantomimes,
  • feigning,
  • theatre,
  • dramatics,
  • portrayal,
  • impersonation,
  • posturings,
  • pretending,
  • Imitating,
  • playing,
  • portraying,
  • performance,
  • Simulating,
  • histrionics,
  • play acting,
  • rendition,
  • Theatricals,
  • stooging,
  • characterization,
  • enactment.
  •depicting (noun)
  • depicting.

• v.

  •act (verb)
  • go over,
  • rehearse,
  • be on,
  • play gig,
  • play act,
  • perform,
  • feign,
  • take part,
  • represent,
  • personate,
  • mug,
  • ham it up,
  • do a turn,
  • ham,
  • play,
  • pretend,
  • put it over,
  • emote,
  • dramatize,
  • bring down the house,
  • star,
  • play part,
  • enact,
  • go on,
  • personify,
  • tread the boards,
  • burlesque,
  • lay an egg,
  • portray,
  • stooge,
  • play role,
  • say one's piece,
  • make debut.
  •characterize (verb)
  • discriminate,
  • mark,
  • signalize,
  • style,
  • belong to,
  • indicate,
  • differentiate,
  • feature,
  • make up,
  • peg,
  • brand,
  • tab,
  • typecast,
  • personalize,
  • symbolize,
  • constitute,
  • designate,
  • singularize,
  • outline,
  • inform,
  • define,
  • identify,
  • button down,
  • Peculiarize,
  • stamp,
  • pigeonhole,
  • individualize,
  • individuate.
  •copy (verb)
  • engross,
  • reflect,
  • replicate,
  • forge,
  • ditto,
  • photostat,
  • paraphrase,
  • trace,
  • xerox,
  • imitate,
  • rewrite,
  • manifold,
  • knock off,
  • reduplicate,
  • photocopy,
  • sculpture,
  • engrave,
  • dupe,
  • fake,
  • transcribe,
  • carbon,
  • repeat,
  • mold,
  • mirror,
  • clone,
  • plagiarize,
  • STAT,
  • cartoon,
  • counterfeit,
  • mimeo.
  •delineate (verb)
  • chart,
  • detail,
  • sketch out,
  • plot,
  • draft,
  • lay out.
  •depict (verb)
  • design,
  • narrate,
  • state,
  • sculpt,
  • relate,
  • report.
  •describe (verb)
  • explicate,
  • distinguish,
  • mark out,
  • construe,
  • call,
  • particularize,
  • express,
  • name,
  • convey image,
  • label,
  • exemplify,
  • transmit,
  • illuminate,
  • make vivid,
  • recount,
  • chronicle,
  • expound,
  • tell,
  • impart,
  • term,
  • make apparent,
  • elucidate,
  • communicate,
  • specify,
  • make sense of,
  • recite,
  • write up,
  • epitomize,
  • make clear.
  •detail (verb)
  • enumerate,
  • recapitulate,
  • circumstantiate,
  • spread,
  • reveal,
  • get down to brass tacks,
  • catalog,
  • stipulate,
  • elaborate,
  • show,
  • embellish,
  • exhibit,
  • specialize,
  • analyze,
  • quote chapter and verse,
  • itemize,
  • fly speck,
  • sweat details,
  • spell out,
  • set forth,
  • uncover,
  • produce,
  • summarize.
  •imitating (verb)
  • reflecting,
  • Impersonating,
  • Paralleling,
  • Counterfeiting,
  • repeating,
  • replicating,
  • Mirroring,
  • Emulating,
  • flattering,
  • copying,
  • Aping,
  • mocking,
  • miming,
  • Duplicating,
  • Resembling,
  • echoing,
  • parroting,
  • Mimicking,
  • Parodying.
  •portray (verb)
  • draw,
  • image,
  • delineate,
  • parody,
  • impersonate,
  • simulate,
  • copy,
  • photograph,
  • depict,
  • limn,
  • describe,
  • duplicate,
  • mimic,
  • characterize,
  • sketch,
  • figure,
  • reproduce,
  • act like,
  • paint,
  • interpret,
  • render,
  • illustrate,
  • picture.
  •reporting (verb)
  • telling,
  • retelling,
  • Describing,
  • accounting,
  • reporting,
  • recording,
  • logging,
  • Tabling,
  • Chronicling,
  • recounting,
  • summarizing,
  • Journalizing,
  • Stating,
  • Narrating.
  •representing (verb)
  • rendering,
  • modeling,
  • Approximating,
  • Outlining,
  • Photographing,
  • mocking up,
  • silhouetting,
  • Illustrating,
  • casting.
  •writing (verb)
  • composing,
  • writing,
  • rewriting,
  • Formulating,
  • corresponding,
  • ghostwriting,
  • Transcribing.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • representing.
  •n.
  • acting,
  • representational process.

Paraphrases for Portraying:

• Equivalence

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    depicting.

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Characterizing, representing, Photographing, Illustrating, demonstrating, representative, Exposing, Displaying, Describing, Explaining, Corroborating, posing, pointing, Articulating, appearing, highlighting, summarizing, Presenting, Delineating, showcasing, revealing, conveying, Indicating, Introducing, detailing, Plotting, reflecting, Outlining, where, charting, Citing, profiling, Submitting, shooting, recounting, Terming, starring, Chronicling, Advising, featuring, Exhibiting, documenting, covering, inputting, showing, Evidencing, focussing, adducing, filing, filming, Effecting, Tabling, Fielding, lodging.

Portraying Sentence Examples:

• This looked toward opera, toward Romanticism, toward a mixture of types; but it was effective as a mode of portraying states of feeling.

• I tried to argue the question with Young by portraying to him the situation and the utter hopelessness of any attempt to break the slate.