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| Main Entry: | detail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | specify, make clear |
| Synonyms: | analyze, catalog, communicate, delineate, depict, describe, designate, elaborate, embellish, enumerate, epitomize, exhibit, itemize, lay out, narrate, portray, produce, recapitulate, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, reveal, show, specialize, spell out, spread, stipulate, summarize, tell, uncover, circumstantiate, fly speck, get down to brass tacks, individualize, particularize, quote chapter and verse, set forth, sweat details |
| Antonyms: | hide, misrepresent, suppress, withhold |
| Main Entry: | detail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assign specific task |
| Synonyms: | allocate, appoint, charge, commission, delegate, detach, send |
| Main Entry: | recital |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | narrative, rendering |
| Synonyms: | account, concert, description, enumeration, fable, musical, narration, performance, portrayal, presentation, reading, recapitulation, recitation, rehearsal, relation, repetition, report, statement, story, tale, telling, detailing, musicale, recountal, recounting |
| Notes: | a recital is a musical performance by a soloist or two performers; a concert is a performance by a group |
| Main Entry: | assign |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set apart for a reason |
| Synonyms: | allocate, allot, appoint, apportion, appropriate, consign, designate, detail, determine, dish out*, distribute, divide, earmark, fix, give, grant, hand out*, hand over, indicate, mete, prescribe, relegate, shell out*, specify, stipulate, fork out* |
| Antonyms: | keep |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | attach |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attribute, ascribe |
| Synonyms: | allocate, allot, appoint, assign, associate, connect, consign, designate, detail, earmark, impute, lay, name, place, put, second, send, invest with |
| Antonyms: | disunite, take away |
| Main Entry: | cast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | select for activity |
| Synonyms: | allot, appoint, arrange, assign, blueprint, chart, choose, delegate, design, designate, detail, determine, devise, name, pick, plan, project, decide upon, give parts |
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | describe in published writing |
| Synonyms: | broadcast, detail, investigate, narrate, recount, relate, report, tell of, write up |
| Antonyms: | disregard, forget, ignore |
| Main Entry: | define |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give description |
| Synonyms: | ascertain, assign, characterize, construe, decide, delineate, denote, describe, designate, detail, determine, dub, elucidate, entitle, etch, exemplify, explain, expound, illustrate, interpret, label, name, prescribe, represent, specify, spell out, tag, translate, call a spade a spade, denominate, formalize, lay it out, nail it down |
| Antonyms: | confuse, distort, tangle, twist |
| Main Entry: | delineate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | describe; outline |
| Synonyms: | characterize, chart, define, depict, detail, draft, draw, figure, lay out, limn, mark, plot, portray, represent, trace, sketch out |
| Main Entry: | depict |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | describe, render in drawing or writing |
| Synonyms: | characterize, delineate, design, detail, illustrate, image, interpret, limn, narrate, outline, paint, picture, portray, relate, report, represent, reproduce, sketch, state, sculpt |
| Antonyms: | confuse, distort, mix up |
| Main Entry: | describe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explain in speech, writing |
| Synonyms: | call, characterize, chronicle, communicate, construe, define, delineate, depict, detail, distinguish, draw, elucidate, epitomize, exemplify, explicate, expound, express, illuminate, illustrate, image, impart, interpret, label, limn, name, narrate, outline, paint, picture, portray, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, represent, sketch, specify, state, tell, term, trace, transmit, convey image, make apparent, make clear, make sense of, make vivid, mark out, particularize, write up |
| Antonyms: | confuse, misrepresent, mix up |
| Main Entry: | enumerate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | list, count |
| Synonyms: | calculate, cite, compute, detail, figure, identify, inventory, itemize, mention, name, number, quote, recapitulate, recite, reckon, recount, rehearse, relate, run down, specialize, specify, spell out, sum, tally, tell, total, add up, count noses, keep tabs, particularize, run off, take account of, tick off* |
| Antonyms: | not count |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | expand |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extend, augment |
| Synonyms: | aggrandize, amplify, beef up*, bloat, blow up*, bolster, broaden, burgeon, detail, develop, diffuse, dilate, distend, elaborate, embellish, enlarge, explicate, fatten, fill out, grow, heighten, hike, increase, inflate, lengthen, magnify, mount, multiply, mushroom, open, pad, prolong, protract, pyramid*, spread, stretch, swell, thicken, unfold, unfurl, unravel, unroll, upsurge, wax*, widen, bulk up, fan out*, open out, outspread, piggyback, puff up, slap on, soup up, spread out, stretch out, tack on |
| Antonyms: | abbreviate, contract, lessen, lower, shorten, shrink |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | formulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plan, specify systematically |
| Synonyms: | codify, coin, compose, concoct, contrive, cook up, couch, define, detail, develop, devise, draft, draw up*, dream up*, evolve, express, forge, frame, hatch, indite, invent, make, make up*, map, originate, phrase, prepare, put, systematize, vamp, work, work out, give form to, particularize, set down* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | itemize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | keep detailed record |
| Synonyms: | catalog, cite, count, detail, document, enumerate, instance, inventory, lay out, list, mention, number, quote, recite, record, recount, rehearse, relate, specify, spell out, tally, circumstantiate, individualize, particularize, set out |
| Main Entry: | list |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | keep a record; tabulate |
| Synonyms: | arrange, bill, book, catalogue, census, chart, chronicle, classify, detail, docket, enroll, enter, enumerate, file, index, inscribe, insert, inventory, invoice, itemize, manifest, note, numerate, peg, place, poll, post, record, register, run down, schedule, specialize, specify, spell out, tab, tally, button down, calender, keep count, particularize, put down as, put down for, set down, tick off, write down |
| Antonyms: | forget |
| Main Entry: | mention |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | refer to |
| Synonyms: | acknowledge, acquaint, adduce, advert, bring up, broach, cite, communicate, declare, designate, detail, disclose, discuss, divulge, enumerate, impart, infer, instance, intimate, introduce, name, notice, notify, observe, point out, quote, recount, remark, report, reveal, specify, state, suggest, tell, throw out, allude to, call attention to, hint at, make known, point to, speak about, speak of, touch on |
| Main Entry: | quote |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | repeat something spoken, written by another |
| Synonyms: | adduce, attest, cite, detail, excerpt, extract, instance, name, paraphrase, parrot, proclaim, recall, recite, recollect, reference, refer to, retell |
| Main Entry: | recite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | read out loud; narrate |
| Synonyms: | account for, address, answer, chant, communicate, convey, declaim, delineate, deliver, describe, detail, discourse, dramatize, enact, enlarge, enumerate, expatiate, explain, impart, interpret, itemize, mention, parrot*, perform, picture, portray, quote, recapitulate, recount, rehearse, relate, render, repeat, reply, report, speak, state, tell, utter, give a report, give an account, give verbal account, hold forth, reel off, retell, soliloquize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | recount |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tell a story |
| Synonyms: | convey, delineate, depict, describe, detail, echo, enumerate, itemize, narrate, picture, portray, recapitulate, recite, rehash, rehearse, relate, repeat, report, run down*, run through*, state, tell, track, unload, verbalize, break a story, give an account of, play back, recap, run by again, say again |
| Antonyms: | conceal, repress |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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