depict

Other forms of depict

past tense

depicted·

present participle

depicting·

third person

depicts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about depict

What does depict mean?

depict means "show in, or as in, a picture". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in depict?

depict has 2 syllables: de-pict. The stress falls on "pict". In IPA it is /dɪˈpɪkt/.

What is another word for depict?

Close synonyms include picture, render, show, describe, draw. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is depict a common word?

depict is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.