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symbolize - 17 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | symbolize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | represent; stand for |
| Synonyms: | betoken, connote, denote, embody, epitomize, exemplify, express, illustrate, indicate, mean, mirror, personify, show, signify, suggest, symbol, typify, body forth, emblematize |
| Main Entry: | characterize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | typify, distinguish |
| Synonyms: | brand, constitute, define, delineate, describe, designate, differentiate, discriminate, feature, identify, indicate, inform, make up, mark, outline, peg, pigeonhole*, portray, represent, stamp, style, symbolize, tab, belong to, button down, individualize, individuate, peculiarize, personalize, signalize, singularize, typecast |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | denote |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | designate, mean |
| Synonyms: | announce, argue, bespeak, betoken, connote, evidence, express, finger, flash, imply, import, indicate, insinuate, intend, make, mark, peg, prove, show, signify, spell, stand for, symbol, symbolize, tab, tag, typify, add up, hang sign on, put down for, put finger on |
| Notes: | denote means to make known or plainly mean, while connote means to express or state indirectly or imply |
| Main Entry: | exemplify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | serve as an example |
| Synonyms: | body, cite, clarify, clear up, demonstrate, depict, display, elucidate, embody, enlighten, epitomize, evidence, exhibit, illuminate, illustrate, instance, manifest, mirror, personify, quote, represent, show, spell out, symbolize, typify, emblematize |
| Main Entry: | indicate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | signify, display |
| Synonyms: | add up to, announce, argue, attest, augur, bespeak, betoken, card, connote, demonstrate, denote, designate, evidence, evince, express, finger, hint, illustrate, imply, import, intimate, make, manifest, mark, mean, name, peg*, pinpoint*, point out, prove, read, record, register, reveal, show, sign, signal, slot, specify, suggest, symbolize, tab, tag, testify, witness, be symptomatic, button down, pin down, point to |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide, mislead |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | materialize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come into being |
| Synonyms: | actualize, appear, coalesce, come about, develop, embody, emerge, evolve, happen, manifest, metamorphose, objectify, occur, personify, realize, substantiate, symbolize, turn up, typify, unfold, visualize, be incarnate, be realized, become concrete, become real, become visual, come to pass, corporealize, entify, exteriorize, externalize, hypostatize, make real, personalize, personize, pragmatize, reify, substantialize, take form, take place, take shape |
| Main Entry: | mirror |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | copy, reflect |
| Synonyms: | depict, double, echo, embody, emulate, epitomize, exemplify, follow, glass, illustrate, image, imitate, mimic, personify, represent, show, simulate, symbolize, take off*, typify, act like, make like |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | personify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | represent some other being, character |
| Synonyms: | contain, copy, embody, epitomize, exemplify, express, humanize, illustrate, image, imitate, impersonate, incarnate, manifest, materialize, mirror, objectify, substantiate, symbolize, typify, act out, body forth, emblematize, exteriorize, externalize, hominify, live as, make human, personize |
| Main Entry: | stand for |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | signify, mean |
| Synonyms: | answer for, betoken, denote, exemplify, imply, indicate, represent, suggest, symbol, symbolize, appear for |
| Main Entry: | typify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | represent, characterize |
| Synonyms: | describe, embody, epitomize, exemplify, feature, illustrate, incarnate, mean, mirror, model, personify, stand for, sum up, symbolize, body forth, emblematize |
| Main Entry: | embody |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | represent; materialize |
| Synonyms: | actualize, complete, demonstrate, epitomize, evince, exemplify, exhibit, express, illustrate, incarnate, incorporate, manifest, mirror, objectify, personify, realize, show, stand for, substantiate, symbolize, typify, concretize, emblematize, exteriorize, externalize, hypostatize, personalize, reify |
| Antonyms: | exclude, disembody |
| Main Entry: | epitomize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | typify |
| Synonyms: | characterize, embody, exemplify, illustrate, mean, model, personify, represent, stand for, symbolize |
| Main Entry: | express |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | articulate; signify, mean |
| Synonyms: | add up to*, air, assert, asseverate, bespeak, broach, circulate, communicate, connote, convey, couch, declare, denote, depict, designate, disclose, divulge, embody, enunciate, evince, exhibit, formulate, frame*, give, hint, import, indicate, insinuate, intend, intimate, manifest, phrase, proclaim, pronounce, put, represent, reveal, say, show, speak, spell, stand for, state, suggest, symbolize, tell, testify, utter, vent, ventilate, verbalize, voice, word, make known, pop off*, put across, put into words |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illustrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demonstrate, exemplify |
| Synonyms: | clarify, clear, clear up, delineate, depict, disclose, elucidate, embody, emphasize, epitomize, evidence, evince, exhibit, explain, expose, expound, get across*, get over*, highlight, illuminate, imitate, instance, interpret, lay out*, limelight*, manifest, mark, mirror, personify, picture, portray, proclaim, represent, reveal, show, show and tell*, spotlight*, symbolize, typify, vivify, allegorize, bring home, draw a picture, emblematize, make clear, make plain, ostend, point up* |
| Antonyms: | hide, obscure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mean |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | signify, convey |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, allude, argue, attest, augur, betoken, connote, denote, designate, determine, drive at*, express, foreshadow, foretell, herald, imply, import, indicate, intimate, involve, name, portend, presage, promise, purport, represent, say, spell, stand for, suggest, symbolize, add up, allude to, hint at, point to, speak of, tell the meaning of, touch on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | signify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mean, indicate |
| Synonyms: | add up to, announce, bear, bespeak, betoken, carry, communicate, connote, convey, denote, disclose, evidence, evince, exhibit, express, flash, imply, import, insinuate, intend, intimate, manifest, matter, portend, proclaim, purport, represent, show, sign, spell, stand for, suggest, symbolize, talk, tell, wink, be a sign of |
| Main Entry: | suggest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imply; bring to mind |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, advert, allude, connote, denote, evoke, hint, indicate, infer, insinuate, intimate, occur, point, promise, refer, represent, shadow, signify, symbolize, typify, be a sign of, cross the mind, lead to believe, point in direction of, put in mind of |
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