line drawing

1. 1.

   a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects

   Synonymsdelineationdepictionlimning

   Broaderdrawing

   Narroweranimalization

Questions about line drawing

What does line drawing mean?

line drawing means "a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects".

What is another word for line drawing?

Close synonyms include delineation, depiction, limning. 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 line drawing a common word?

line drawing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.