Word Meanings - ILLUSTRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make clear, bright, or luminous. Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky. Chapman. 2. To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously. Shak. To prove him, and illustrate his high worth. Milton. 3. To make clear,

Additional info about word: ILLUSTRATE

1. To make clear, bright, or luminous. Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky. Chapman. 2. To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously. Shak. To prove him, and illustrate his high worth. Milton. 3. To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples. 4. To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance. 5. To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify. Matter to me of glory, whom their hate Illustrates. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ILLUSTRATE)

• Comment Note
• observe
• interpret
• illustrate
• expound
• dilate
• explain
• expatiate
• criticise
• Demonstrate
• Prove
• show
• exhibit
• manifest
• evince
• Describe
• Draw
• delineate
• portray
• define
• picture
• depict
• represent
• relate
• narrate
• recount
• Exemplify
• Illustrate
• embody
• Exhibit
• Show
• evidence
• betray
• demonstrate

Related words: (words related to ILLUSTRATE)

• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• CRITICISER
  One who criticises; a critic.
• DELINEATE
  Delineated; portrayed.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• PROVENCAL
  Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• EVINCE
  1. To conquer; to subdue. Error by his own arms is best evinced. Milton. 2. To show in a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident; to bring to light; to evidence. Common sense and experience must and will
• 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
• EVIDENCER
  One whi gives evidence.
• COMMENTER
  One who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator.
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• PROVENCE ROSE
  The cabbage rose . A name of many kinds of roses which are hybrids of Rosa centifolia and R. Gallica.
• INTERPRETATIVELY
  By interpretation. Ray.
• INTERPRETIVE
  Interpretative.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• PREDEFINE
  To define beforehand.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• UNIMPROVED
  1. Not improved; not made better or wiser; not advanced in knowledge, manners, or excellence. 2. Not used; not employed; especially, not used or employed for a valuable purpose; as, unimproved opportunities; unimproved blessings. Cowper. 3. Not
• LIVING PICTURE
  A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.