sketches

NOUN

drawing, outline

Synonyms

STRONGEST

account blueprint cartoon chart copy depiction description illustration likeness painting picture piece portrayal summary version vignette

STRONG

adumbration compendium configuration delineation design diagram digest doodle draft figuration figure form monograph plan report representation rough shape skeleton survey syllabus

WEAK

aperçu précis

VERB

draw, outline

Synonyms

STRONGEST

chalk chart delineate depict lay out paint portray

STRONG

adumbrate blueprint characterize describe design detail develop diagram doodle draft line plan plot represent skeleton trace

WEAK

block out map out rough out skeletonize

Antonyms

STRONG

forget ignore misrepresent neglect

Example Sentences

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Sketches from Monday’s court hearing show Smirnov to be an inconspicuous-enough bearded man in glasses with short-cropped brown hair.

From Slate • Feb. 29, 2024

Sketches and blackouts are often evanescent, like an idea sketched on a cocktail napkin; some last only a few seconds yet might have been fiendishly complicated to prepare and execute.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2023

Sketches by the Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci served as a foundation for his design.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023

Sketches for the 1787 “The Death of Socrates,” in the Met’s collection, place the bowl of poisonous hemlock in the center of the drama.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2022

It was one of the stories in "A Sportsman's Sketches."

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway