| Main Entry: | hieroglyphic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | graphic |
Synonyms: |
blocked-out, delineated, depicted, descriptive, diagrammatic, drawn, engraved, etched, iconographic, illustrated, illustrational, illustrative, marked-out, outlined, painted, photographic, pictographic, pictorial, pictoric, pictured, portrayed, representa |
| Main Entry: | handwriting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the way a person writes |
Synonyms: |
autography, calligraphy, chicken scratch, chirography, ductus, griffonage, hand, hieroglyphics, longhand, manuscript, manuscription, mark, pencraft, penscript, scratching, scrawl, scribble, script, scription, scrivenery, scrivening, style, writing |
| Main Entry: | illegible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unreadable |
Synonyms: |
cacographic, crabbed, cramped, difficult to read, faint, hard to make out, hieroglyphic, indecipherable, indistinct, obscure, scrawled, unclear, undecipherable, unintelligible |
| Notes: | eligible means qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen while illegible means hard to read or not legible illegible refers to bad handwriting, while unreadable refers to poor writing |
Antonyms: |
decipherable, legible, readible, understandable |
| Main Entry: | writing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | printing on paper |
Synonyms: |
autograph, calligraphy, chirography, cuneiform, hand, handwriting, hieroglyphics, longhand, manuscription, print, scrawl, scribble, script, shorthand |
| Main Entry: | picture writing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expression by pictures |
Synonyms: |
cuneal writing, cuneiform, curiology, hieroglyphics, ideography, phonographic writing, runes, script, symbolical writing, symbology |
| Main Entry: | indecipherable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unreadable |
Synonyms: |
cryptic, hieroglyphic, illegible, scrawled |
Antonyms: |
decipherable |
| Main Entry: | scribbling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | messy writing |
Synonyms: |
cacography, graffiti, graffito, griffonage, hieroglyphics |
| Main Entry: | pictographic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | graphic |
Synonyms: |
blocked-out, delineated, depicted, descriptive, diagrammatic, drawn, engraved, etched, hieroglyphic, iconographic, illustrated, illustrational, illustrative, marked-out, outlined, painted, photographic, pictorial, pictoric, pictured, portrayed, representational, seen, sketched, traced, visual |
| Main Entry: | writing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
writing, Apollonian, Attic, Byronic, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Parnassian, Rabelaisian, Renaissance, Victorian, allonymous, anepigraphous, anonymous, anopisthographic, auctorial, battological, bibliophagic, bucolic, classical, cuneiform, demotic, epistolary, erotographomanic, graphic, heroic, hieroglyphical, in black and white, in prose, in type, in writing, macaronic, melic, mock, onomastic, onymous, out of print, phat, printed, printless, prosaic, prosy, rimeless, runic, scribaceous, scribblative, scripturient, stylized, tabellarious, tete, uncial, under one's hand, unpoetical, unrecorded, unregistered, unrimed, unwritten, written
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| Concept: | Writing. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; written language |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
writing; chirography, stelography, cerography; penmanship, craftmanship; quill driving; typewriting., writing, manuscript, MS., literae scriptae; these presents., stroke of the pen, dash of the pen; coupe de plume; line; headline; pen and ink., letter; uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, Ogham, Runes, hieroglyphic; contraction; Brahmi, Devanagari, Nagari; script., shorthand; stenography, brachygraphy, tachygraphy; secret writing, writing in cipher; cryptography, stenography; phonography, pasigraphy, Polygraphy, logography., copy; transcript, rescript; rough copy, fair copy; handwriting; signature, sign manual; autograph, monograph, holograph; hand, fist., calligraphy; good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold hand., cacography, griffonage, barbouillage; bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand; scribble; pattes de mouche; ill-formed letters; pothooks and hangers., stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table; blackboard; ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well; typewriter., transcription (copy); inscription (record); superscription (indication); graphology., composition, authorship; cacoethes scribendi; graphoidea, graphomania; phrenoia., writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber, quill driver; stenographer, typewriter, typist; writer for the press (author).
-verbs
write, pen; copy, engross; write out, write out fair; transcribe; scribble, scrawl, scrabble, scratch; interline; stain paper; write down (record); sign (attest); enface., compose, indite, draw up, draft, formulate; dictate; inscribe, throw on paper, dash off; manifold., take up the pen, take pen in hand; shed ink, spill ink, dip one's pen in ink.
-adjectives
writing; written; in writing, in black and white; under one's hand., uncial, Runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical.
-adverbs
currente calamo; pen in hand.
-phrases
audacter et sincere; le style est l'homme meme; "nature's noblest gift -- my gray goose quill" [Byron]; scribendi recte sapere et principium et fons [Horace]; "that mighty instrument of little men" [Byron]; "the pen became a
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