portray
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
portray in words
The book portrays the actor as a selfish person
Types & categories
- represent hypernym
Related & opposite
- portrayal derivation
Sense 2 verb
make a portrait of
Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba
Types & categories
- interpret hypernym
Related & opposite
- portraiture derivation
- painting derivation
- depicting derivation
- portraitist derivation
- delineative derivation
- artistic creation domain topic
Sense 3 verb
assume or act the character of
She impersonates Madonna
Types & categories
- act hypernym
Related & opposite
- portrayal derivation
- personation derivation
- imposture derivation
- persona derivation
- performing arts domain topic
Sense 4 verb
represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture
The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- demonstration derivation
- delineation derivation
- portraiture derivation
- display derivation
- depicting derivation
- portraitist derivation
- artistic creation domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | portrayal |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | represent |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | portraiture |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | painting |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | depicting |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | portraitist |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | delineative |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | artistic creation |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | interpret |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | portrayal |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | personation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | imposture |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | persona |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | performing arts |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | act |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | demonstration |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | delineation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | portraiture |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | display |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | depicting |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | portraitist |
| 4 | domain topic | Related & opposite | artistic creation |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | interpret |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | commend |