Word Meanings - DESCRIPTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs. 2. A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species. Milton has descriptions

Additional info about word: DESCRIPTION

1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs. 2. A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species. Milton has descriptions of morning. D. Webster. 3. A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort. A difference . . . between them and another description of public creditors. A. Hamilton. The plates were all of the meanest description. Macaulay. Syn. -- Account; definition; recital; relation; detail; narrative; narration; explanation; delineation; representation; kind; sort. See Definition.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESCRIPTION)

• Account
• Narration
• report
• rehearsal
• story
• statement
• narrative
• recital
• relation
• description
• motive
• value
• importance
• advantage
• ground
• reason
• profit
• Appellation
• Name
• patronymic
• cognomen
• style
• designation
• title
• denomination
• term
• Classification
• taxonomic
• Order
• species
• nature
• character
• cast
• stamp
• group
• kind
• section
• sect
• category
• assortment
• genus
• Denomination
• class
• order
• appellation
• Explanation
• Exposition
• explication
• interpretation
• sense

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DESCRIPTION)

• Disesteem
• misestimate
• mystify
• understate
• undervalue
• perplex
• darken
• Misname
• miscall
• misdesignate
• misindicate
• hint
• suggest
• shadow
• adumbrate
• Silence
• hush
• suppress
• misreport
• misrepresent
• miarelate
• falsify
• Miscompute
• disesteem
• disregard
• vilipend
• underrate
• underestimate
• despise
• contemn
• cheapen
• vilify

Related words: (words related to DESCRIPTION)

• TITLELESS
  Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• COGNOMEN
  A surname. (more info) 1. The last of the three names of a person among the ancient Romans, denoting his house or family.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• TITLED
  Having or bearing a title.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• CATEGORY
  One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• ARAEOSTYLE
  See INTERCOLUMNIATION
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.