| 单词 | depicted |
| 释义 | depicted (once / 1249 pages) adj If your brother is depicted as a couch potato in your autobiographical novel, it means that you described him in a certain way, so that he came across as a lazy TV watcher. The adjective depicted means "shown or represented." A person or thing can be depicted in a particular way through a description, a drawing, a photograph, or any other artistic medium. Whenever a vivid picture of something — like life in Victorian England — is presented, that thing is being depicted. The Latin root depictus comes from the prefix de, meaning "down," and pingere, "to paint," and it means "to portray, paint, sketch or imagine." WORD FAMILYdepict: depicted, depicting, depiction, depictive, depicts+/depiction: depictions USAGE EXAMPLESShe thought it a relic, scrapped after it was depicted as an instrument of torture in the 1975 movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) Later, in “Postcards from the Edge,” Fisher depicted the mother as the center of attention even at her daughter’s homecoming from rehab. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) The “collective” drone idea follows another interesting scheme depicted in an Amazon patent document published in April: flying warehouses held aloft by blimps. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) adj represented graphically by sketch or design or lines Syn pictured, portrayed delineate, delineated, represented represented accurately or precisely |
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