Word Meanings - EXEMPLIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To show or illustrate by example. He did but . . . exemplify the principles in which he had been brought up. Cowper. 2. To copy; to transcribe; to make an attested copy or transcript of, under seal, as of a record. Holland. 3. To prove or show

Additional info about word: EXEMPLIFY

1. To show or illustrate by example. He did but . . . exemplify the principles in which he had been brought up. Cowper. 2. To copy; to transcribe; to make an attested copy or transcript of, under seal, as of a record. Holland. 3. To prove or show by an attested copy.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXEMPLIFY)

• Illustrate
• Elucidate
• interpret
• exemplify
• demonstrate
• represent
• explain
• embody
• paint
• image
• make clear

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXEMPLIFY)

• Daub
• caricature
• misportray
• misrepresent
• misdelineate
• misdepict

Related words: (words related to EXEMPLIFY)

• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• DEMONSTRATER
  See DEMONSTRATOR
• INTERPRETABLE
  Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained.
• EXPLAIN
  out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear
• CLEAR-HEADED
  Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
• PAINTING
  The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture. 3. Color laid on; paint. Shak. 4. A depicting by words; vivid representation
• ELUCIDATE
  To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.
• INTERPRETATIVELY
  By interpretation. Ray.
• PAINT
  1. To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well. 2. To color one's face by way of beautifying it. Let her paint an inch thick. Shak.
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• PAINTERSHIP
  The state or position of being a painter. Br. Gardiner.
• INTERPRETIVE
  Interpretative.
• PAINTED
  Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. Painted beauty , a handsome American butterfly , having a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup , any plant of an American genus of herbs in which the bracts are
• CLEAR-SEEING
  Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
• CLEARCOLE
  A priming of size mixed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding.
• REPRESENTATIVELY
  In a representative manner; vicariously.
• EMBODY
  To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise. Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott. The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be
• PAINTER
  A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Totten. (more info) panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. ; painteir a net, gin,
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
• OVERPAINT
  To color or describe too strongly. Sir W. Raleigh.
• UNPAINT
  To remove the paint from; to efface, as a painting. Parnell.