| Main Entry: | art |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation meant to communicate or appeal to senses or mind |
Synonyms: |
abstraction, carving, description, design, illustration, imitation, modeling, molding, painting, pictorialization, portrayal, representation, sculpting, shaping, simulation, sketching, symbolization |
Antonyms: |
science |
| Main Entry: | carve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut carefully with sharp instrument |
Synonyms: |
block out, chip, chisel, cleave, dissect, dissever, divide, engrave, etch, fashion, form, grave, hack, hew, incise, indent, insculpt, model, mold, mould, pattern, rough-hew, sculpt, shape, slash, slice, stipple, sunder, tool, trim, whittle |
| Main Entry: | chisel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut, wear away |
Synonyms: |
carve, hew, incise, roughcast, roughhew, sculpt, sculpture, shape |
| 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, sculpt, sketch, state |
Antonyms: |
confuse, distort, mix up |
| Main Entry: | emboss |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imprint |
Synonyms: |
adorn, carve, decorate, etch, impress, punch, sculpt, stamp |
| Main Entry: | model |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | form, shape |
Synonyms: |
base, carve, cast, create, design, fashion, mold, pattern, plan, sculpt |
| Main Entry: | mold |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | form, give shape |
Synonyms: |
build, construct, devise, erect, fashion, forge, form, frame, make, pat, plan, plant, plot, put together, round, scheme, sculpt, whittle |
Antonyms: |
dismantle |
| Main Entry: | sculpture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | form a three-dimensional art object |
Synonyms: |
carve, cast, chisel, cut, engrave, fashion, hew, model, mold, sculp, sculpt, shape |
| Main Entry: | whittle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut away at; reduce |
Synonyms: |
carve, chip, consume, decrease, diminish, eat away, erode, fashion, form, hew, lessen, model, mold, pare, sculpt, shape, shave, trim, undermine, wear away |
Antonyms: |
build, increase |
| Main Entry: | art |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
aperture, Biedermeier, Parian, Queen Anne, annulate, anomphalous, artificial, artistic, banded, botonée, broché, camera, chryselephantine, collared, condensed, copied, coppertoning, cross, displayed, expanded, exploded, fictile, figulate, figurative, filigreed, florid, flowery, futuramic, graphic, hard, ideoplastic, illustrated, illustrative, imitative, inclave, incuse, latticed, lavaliere, like, linear, lineate, lineolate, made, malleated, manufactured, marmoreal, matelassé, matte, mosaic, nonchromatic, oil, ornamented, ornate, orthochromatic, outlined, panchromatic, pencil, pictorial, picturesque, plaid, plastic, plateresque, pommée, punctate, punctiform, punctuate, raw, refractory, representative, represented, representing, ringstreaked, roman, rosular, scalariform, scrimshaw, semigloss, shutter, site, streaked, supellectile, tessellated, testaceous, textorial, vermiculate, vitreous, vittate, volant, vulned, waffle, washed
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