Synonyms for image

Synonyms for (noun) image

Synonyms: effigy, simulacrum, image

Definition: a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)

Usage: the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln; the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone

Similar words: representation

Definition: a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something


Synonyms: picture, icon, ikon, image

Definition: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

Usage: they showed us the pictures of their wedding; a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them

Similar words: representation

Definition: a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something


Synonyms: image

Definition: the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public

Usage: although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry; the company tried to project an altruistic image

Similar words: effect, impression

Definition: an outward appearance

Usage: he made a good impression; I wanted to create an impression of success; she retained that bold effect in her reproductions of the original painting


Synonyms: image, persona

Definition: (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world

Usage: a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty

Similar words: visual aspect, appearance

Definition: outward or visible aspect of a person or thing


Synonyms: image, mental image

Definition: an iconic mental representation

Usage: her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate

Similar words: representation, internal representation, mental representation

Definition: a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image


Synonyms: paradigm, image, epitome, prototype

Definition: a standard or typical example

Usage: he is the prototype of good breeding; he provided America with an image of the good father

Similar words: example, model

Definition: a representative form or pattern

Usage: I profited from his example


Synonyms: figure, figure of speech, trope, image

Definition: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

Similar words: rhetorical device

Definition: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)


Synonyms: image, range, range of a function

Definition: (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined

Usage: the image of f(x) = x^2 is the set of all non-negative real numbers if the domain of the function is the set of all real numbers

Similar words: set

Definition: (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols

Usage: the set of prime numbers is infinite


Synonyms: double, look-alike, image

Definition: someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)

Usage: he could be Gingrich's double; she's the very image of her mother

Similar words: somebody, someone, soul, mortal, person, individual

Definition: a human being

Usage: there was too much for one person to do


Synonyms for (verb) image

Synonyms: figure, envision, fancy, project, picture, see, image, visualise, visualize

Definition: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

Usage: I can't see him on horseback!; I can see what will happen; I can see a risk in this strategy

Similar words: envisage, conceive of, ideate, imagine

Definition: form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case

Usage: Can you conceive of him as the president?


Synonyms: image

Definition: render visible, as by means of MRI

Similar words: visualise, visualize

Definition: view the outline of by means of an X-ray

Usage: The radiologist can visualize the cancerous liver


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