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Antonyms for description
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dih-skrip-shuhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈskrɪp ʃən |
Definition of description
Origin :- late 14c., from Old French description (12c.) and directly from Latin descriptionem (nominative descriptio) "representation, description, copy," noun of action from past participle stem of describere "write down, transcribe, copy, sketch," from de- "down" (see de-) + scribere "write" (see script (n.)).
- noun account in speech, writing
- noun class, kind
- She had received absolutely no other description of the girl she was to meet.
- Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
- I will attempt no description of the beauties that met them at every turn.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- I was only thinking of our friend's description of his awfulness.
- Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
- The description of Ranelagh (in the chapter on Music) is too lengthy to reproduce.
- Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson
- But there is more in this light badinage of the girls than a description of Rosaline.
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- Can anyone assert that our connexion with Athens answers to this description?
- Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell
- "That's as good a description of him as you could invent," he said.
- Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
- Then I gave him as close a description of the man as I could.
- Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
- This description was Enid Biddell's, she being happy and therefore frivolous.
- Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
- Witness the following, from a description of the city churchgoers.
- Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
Synonyms for description
- ABCs
- blow by blow
- brand
- breed
- brief
- category
- character
- characterization
- chronicle
- classification
- confession
- declaration
- definition
- delineation
- depiction
- detail
- explanation
- explication
- feather
- fingerprint
- genre
- genus
- ilk
- information
- kidney
- make
- monograph
- narration
- narrative
- nature
- order
- picture
- portraiture
- portrayal
- presentment
- recital
- recitation
- record
- recountal
- rehearsal
- report
- representation
- rundown
- sketch
- sort
- species
- specification
- statement
- story
- stripe
- summarization
- summary
- tale
- type
- variety
- version
- vignette
- writeup
- yarn
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