WORD-PAINTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does word-painting mean? 

• WORD-PAINTING (noun)
  The noun WORD-PAINTING has 1 sense:

1. a graphic or vivid verbal description

  Familiarity information: WORD-PAINTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORD-PAINTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A graphic or vivid verbal description

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

characterisation; characterization; delineation; depiction; picture; word-painting; word picture

Context example:

the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters

Hypernyms ("word-painting" is a kind of...):

description; verbal description (a statement that represents something in words)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "word-painting"):

epithet (descriptive word or phrase)

portrait; portraiture; portrayal (a word picture of a person's appearance and character)