Synonyms of the word

sketch

• v. To make a brief, basic drawing.
• v. To describe briefly and with very few details.
• n. A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude…
• n. A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
• n. A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
• n. A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; eg. a short, often humorous…
• n. (informal) An amusing person.
• n. (slang, Ireland) Keeping sketch: to keep a lookout.
• n. (Britain) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase…
• n. (mathematics) A category together with a set of limit cones and a set of colimit cones.
• adj. Sketchy, shady, questionable.

adumbrate

• v. To foreshadow vaguely.
• v. To give a vague outline.
• v. To obscure or overshadow.

cartoon

• n. (comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings, humoristic comics of short…
• n. (comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.
• n. (art) An artist's preliminary sketch.
• n. (animation) An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.
• n. A diagram in a scientific concept.
• v. (art, comics, animation) To draw a cartoon.

depict

• v. To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
• adj. (obsolete) Depicted.

describe

• v. (transitive) To represent in words.
• v. (transitive) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure.
• v. (transitive, taxonomy) To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly…
• v. (obsolete) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.

description

• n. A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration…
• n. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
• n. A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
• n. (taxonomy) A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.

draw

• v. (heading) To move or develop something.
• v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
• v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
• v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
• v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
• v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
• v. To disembowel.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
• v. A random selection process.
• v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
• v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
• v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
• n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
• n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
• n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
• n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
• n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
• n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
• n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
• n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
• n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
• n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

drawing

• v. present participle of draw.
• n. A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.
• n. (uncountable) The act of producing such a picture.
• n. Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.
• n. The process of drawing or pulling something.
• n. An act or event in which the outcome (e.g., designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of…
• n. A small portion of tea for steeping.

humor

• n. American spelling of humour.
• v. American spelling of humour.

humour

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
• n. (uncountable) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by…
• n. (archaic or historical) Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of…
• n. (medicine) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.
• n. (obsolete) Moist vapour, moisture.
• v. (transitive) To pacify by indulging.

outline

• n. A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
• n. The outer shape of an object or figure.
• n. A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
• n. A general description of some subject.
• n. A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
• n. A preliminary plan for a project.
• n. (film industry) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and…
• v. (transitive) To draw an outline of something.
• v. (transitive) To summarize something.

resume

• v. (now rare) To take back possession of (something).
• v. (now rare) To summarise.
• v. To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused;…
• n. (US) A summary of education and employment experience.

study

• v. (usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them,…
• v. (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.
• v. To acquire knowledge on a subject.
• v. To look at minutely.
• v. To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
• v. To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
• n. (obsolete) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
• n. (archaic) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.
• n. Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
• n. The act of studying or examining; examination.
• n. Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
• n. A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of…
• n. An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
• n. (music) A piece for special practice; an étude.

sum-up

• n. A summary.

summary

• adj. Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form.
• adj. Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.
• adj. (law) Performed by cutting the procedures of a standard and fair trial.
• n. An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

survey

• n. The act of surveying; a general view.
• n. The act of making measurement of relative position of the earth surface.
• n. A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items,…
• n. An examination of the opinions of a group of people.
• n. A questionnaire or similar instrument used for examining the opinions of a group of people.
• n. The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's…
• n. A measured plan and description of any portion of country.
• v. To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook.
• v. To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine.
• v. To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of.
• v. To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by…
• v. To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the…
• v. To investigate the opinions or experiences of people by asking them questions.

vignette

• n. (architecture) A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
• n. (printing) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter,…
• n. (by extension) Any small borderless picture in a book, especially an engraving, photograph, or the like,…
• n. (by extension) A short story or anecdote that presents a scene or tableau, or paints a picture.
• n. The small picture on a postage stamp.
• n. (photography) The characteristic of a camera lens, either by deficiency in design or by mismatch of the…
• v. To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge gradually fading away.

wit

• n. (now usually in the plural) Sanity.
• n. (obsolete usually in the plural) The senses.
• n. Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
• n. The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
• n. Intelligence; common sense.
• n. Humour, especially when clever or quick.
• n. A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, chiefly archaic) Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively).
• prep. (Southern US) Alternative spelling of with.

witticism

• n. a witty remark.

wittiness

• n. the quality of being witty.