paint a picture

Verb

Meaning

call to mind

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

suggest evoke limn evoked

Hypernyms

show evince express

Hyponyms

imply smell smack incriminate reek inculpate

Examples

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow. Seth Godin

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously. Howard Hodgkin

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots. Edward Ruscha

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom. Fareed Zakaria

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet. O. Henry

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world. Darren Shan

Close letter words and terms

Painswick painsworthy paint paint a rosy picture paint and sip paint applied thickly