Word Meanings - STATUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion. I will raise her statue in pure gold. Shak. 2. A portrait. Massinger.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STATUE)

• Effigy
• Statue
• figure
• representation
• image
• Image
• likeness
• effigy
• copy
• metaphor
• idea
• conception
• fiction
• shadow
• picture
• vision

Related words: (words related to STATUE)

• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• METAPHORIST
  One who makes metaphors.
• STATUED
  Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot.
• 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
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• CONCEPTIONAL
  Pertaining to conception.
• EFFIGY
  The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes
• STATUELIKE
  Like a statue; motionless.
• STATUETTE
  A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine.
• VISION
  The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve. 3. That
• SHADOWINESS
  The quality or state of being shadowy.
• FICTIONIST
  A writer of fiction. Lamb.
• VISIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being visionary.
• FICTION
  An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton. 5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Syn. --
• SHADOWISH
  Shadowy; vague. Hooker.
• CONCEPTIONALIST
  A conceptualist.
• PICTURESQUISH
  Somewhat picturesque.
• IMAGERY
  1. The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. "Painted imagery." Shak. In those oratories might you see Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery. Dryden. 2. Fig.: Unreal
• STATUESQUELY
  In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue. A character statuesquely simple in its details. Lowell.
• VISIONLESS
  Destitute of vision; sightless.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• SUPERCONCEPTION
  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• LIVING PICTURE
  A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• IMPICTURED
  Pictured; impressed. Spenser.
• DISSHADOW
  To free from shadow or shade. G. Fletcher.
• CONFIGURE
  To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.
• PROVISIONARY
  Provisional. Burke.
• PROVISIONAL
  Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.
• WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
  Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.