Synonyms for Portraying:

• adj.

  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • representing.
  •representing (adjective)
  • showing,
  • defining,
  • 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.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • acting,
  • representational process.

• 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)
  • figure,
  • act like,
  • limn,
  • mimic,
  • reproduce,
  • render,
  • sketch,
  • copy,
  • parody,
  • simulate,
  • duplicate.
  •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:

  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • effigy,
  • Delineatory,
  • image,
  • Expressing,
  • picturing,
  • draw,
  • confronting,
  • drawing,
  • performing,
  • awarding,
  • interpret,
  • mimetic,
  • describe,
  • give,
  • edict,
  • Exhibiting,
  • Gifting,
  • demonstrating,
  • line drawing,
  • Incarnating,
  • act,
  • Personating,
  • portraiture,
  • symbolising,
  • imitative,
  • Delineating,
  • apish,
  • Reciting,
  • word-painting,
  • constitution,
  • Delivering,
  • figurative,
  • acquaint,
  • impersonate,
  • decree,
  • figuring,
  • characterize,
  • imaging,
  • painting,
  • Sketching,
  • landscape,
  • word picture,
  • Presenting,
  • Embodying,
  • Personifying,
  • ideographic,
  • personation,
  • pictorial,
  • Typifying,
  • Explaining,
  • deliver,
  • characterisation,
  • Characterizing,
  • pose,
  • depict,
  • vivid,
  • representational,
  • Commending,
  • hang down,
  • pictographic,
  • paint,
  • likeness,
  • icon,
  • staging,
  • picture,
  • symbolizing,
  • Displaying,
  • Acquainting,
  • photo,
  • depictive,
  • introduce,
  • delineation,
  • representative,
  • photograph,
  • onomatopoeic,
  • illustrate,
  • delineate,
  • Introducing,
  • Relating,
  • featuring,
  • demonstrate,
  • illustrational,
  • interpreting,
  • portrait,
  • confront,
  • graphic,
  • limning,
  • scene,
  • echoic,
  • reproducing,
  • illustrative,
  • facing,
  • Depicturing,
  • simulative,
  • Saluting,
  • demoing,
  • film,
  • coloring.

Paraphrases for Portraying:

• Equivalence

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    depicting.

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
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